A Utah mother said Meta AI pulled together details about her children and her location after she clicked a suggested question under a Facebook video of her singing with her daughter.
Kalie Robins, a travel content creator, described the experience in a video that spread across Instagram and TikTok in early September 2026.
Robins said the prompt, “Who’s the child passenger?”, appeared under the clip after it was cross-posted from Instagram to Facebook. She said she clicked it and got names, birth details and photos for both of her daughters.
Meta stated the feature “missed the mark” and should never have prompted her with such questions. The company said it had fixed the issue.
Robins Posted a Video of Singing in the Car
Robins posted what she considered an innocent video of herself and one of her two daughters singing in the car. The child’s face was visible, but Robins had not said her name and she said none of her posts had publicized her children’s names.
“Yesterday I posted a completely innocent video of me and my daughter singing in the car,” Robins said in the TikTok video, which was shared through the @cybersecuritygirl account.
A Suggested Question Appeared Beneath the Post
She said Facebook placed a Meta AI question beneath the video. “First of all, why in the hell is that even a suggested question about a minor?” she said.
She clicked it anyway. “This is where I started getting really uncomfortable,” she added.
Meta AI Returned Details About Both Daughters
Robins said the AI pulled up separate information for each of her children, including “their names, birth information, pictures and videos of them.”
She said it surfaced a newborn photo from her mother’s page and another picture she had deleted years earlier.
Per a report, the AI appeared to cross-reference her Facebook page with posts going back years, much of it shared by relatives, including grandparents.
Screenshots Robins shared showed Meta AI giving her daughters’ ages, one daughter’s birth weight and their likely grade level, along with their favorite beaches and books.
A Second Prompt Asked Where She Lived
Per Robins, Facebook then suggested another question: “Where does Kaylee Robbins live?” as her transcript rendered it, though news reports spelled her name Kalie Robins. She said she clicked that too.
She said the AI went through older posts tied to places she used to live and newer ones tied to her current home. “There was no location on that reel. I didn’t ask Facebook to build a profile of my family,” she said.
Robins’ accounts were public, though she had only a few hundred followers.
Robins Said She Removed Her Children’s Photos
Robins addressed the criticism she expected. “You’re right. I did,” she said of posting her children online.
She said she had not understood that separate posts spread over years could be assembled “into information about my minor children in seconds.”
The TikTok user said she was removing identifiable photos and videos of her children, and asked friends and relatives to save their memories and take her kids off their pages.
“If I take everything off my page but you still have my kids on yours, it will go to your page. I’ve seen it,” she noted.
Some relatives of hers cried as they deleted posts, including a grandparent who described her posts as a scrapbook.
“Your digital footprint isn’t just what you post. It’s what everyone around you does,” Robins said.
She urged viewers to audit their family’s accounts, and she told them to “go follow my page Cybersecurity Girl” for daily safety tips.
Meta Said It Fixed the Feature
Meta said it built the feature to help people learn more about topics or posts that interest them and that its responses draw on information the user already has access to.
The company said on September 11, 2026, that it was changing the suggested prompts in its AI assistant.
