Meta AI invented my location, then repeatedly asked me for my real location — and later gave contradictory explanatio
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I’m posting this because I’d like to know whether anyone else has experienced something similar with Meta AI on WhatsApp.
During a conversation, Meta AI spontaneously mentioned Tarragona, Spain as an example. I had never told it that I was there, and I have never been to Tarragona or configured it as my location in WhatsApp or on my device.
The important part came afterwards: the model started treating Tarragona as if it were my actual location and repeatedly asked me to provide my “real” location, even though my location was completely irrelevant to the tasks I was asking it to perform.
When I challenged it, it initially said Tarragona had simply been a generic example. Later, after further questioning, it changed its explanation and claimed that Tarragona had actually come from a “system context” containing my location.
I then tested this further.
The model also:
invented a WhatsApp setting called Settings → Meta AI → Memory, claiming I could view and delete information stored about me there;
invented a Report button on Meta AI messages that does not exist in my WhatsApp interface;
corrected both claims only after I explicitly challenged them;
repeatedly suggested deleting the conversation as one of the easiest privacy measures;
after I cleared the conversation, continued to reference the previous context.
When I asked it to distinguish between information it could actually verify and information it was merely inferring, it eventually admitted that it could not independently verify the source of the supposed location data.
I am not claiming that Meta is secretly tracking my physical location. I don’t have evidence for that.
The issue I’m reporting is narrower:
The model introduced a location that I had never provided, subsequently treated it as a personal attribute, repeatedly asked me for the real location despite it being unnecessary, and then produced contradictory explanations about where the original location came from.
I’m documenting the full conversation and submitting it to Meta as a potential privacy/context-handling and hallucination issue.
Has anyone else seen Meta AI:
attribute a location to you that you never provided;
ask you to “correct” an AI-generated location;
claim that a hallucinated piece of information came from system metadata;
invent WhatsApp settings or privacy controls when asked about data handling?
I’m particularly interested in whether this happens consistently with WhatsApp Meta AI or whether it was specific to my conversation.