Ever feel like your phone is low-key stalking you? Well, you’re not entirely wrong.

Instagram head Adam Mosseri just dropped a bombshell that’ll make privacy nerds everywhere raise an eyebrow: Meta isn’t listening through your microphone… because it doesn’t have to anymore. With AI stepping into the digital surveillance game, your conversations are about to become an even more valuable commodity.

The Creepy Ad Targeting Explained

Remember that time you whispered about wanting new running shoes, and suddenly your Instagram feed was flooded with Nike ads? Yeah, that’s not a coincidence. Mosseri admits Meta’s recommendation system is scarily accurate, but not because they’re secretly recording you.

Instead, they’re using a complex web of data: website visits, user interests, and now - brace yourselves - AI interactions. Meta’s new privacy policy essentially gives them carte blanche to harvest data from your AI chats, creating an even more invasive targeting system.

The AI Privacy Apocalypse

The real kicker? Meta is openly admitting they’ll use AI-generated data for ad targeting. Those personal conversations you’re having with AI chatbots? Congratulations, they’re now potential marketing fuel.

Mosseri tries to play it cool, suggesting sometimes it’s just “coincidence” or “human psychology” making ads feel so personal. But let’s be real: this is corporate surveillance dressed up as convenience.

Welcome to the future, where your thoughts are just another product to be sold.