Meta confirms bug exposed hidden chatbot instructions on WhatsApp

Around 80 pages on WhatsApp's website briefly showed internal guidance written for Meta's AI chatbot, including a section labeled "WHAT NOT TO SAY." Meta ’s AI chatbot on WhatsApp has a rulebook. For a while, anyone visiting the right corner of WhatsApp’s website could read parts of it. Around 80 pages on the site exposed instructions that were meant for the chatbot’s eyes only, Wired reported. Meta says a bug was to blame. The most eye-catching detail is a heading that reads “WHAT NOT TO SAY.” The exposed material was guidance written for Meta’s AI chatbot. It was not intended for the people chatting with it. Meta’s explanation is short: a bug caused it. The company attributed the disclosure to a technical error rather than to any outside attack.

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