Tomo Scared My Daughter

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A parent reports that the AI assistant Tomo asked their daughter about their black cat despite never being told about it, raising concerns about whether the tool scraped her social media data. Tomo admitted it could not rule out obtaining information from her social media accounts, prompting privacy worries.

Hi! I’m new here, and honestly very green to ai in general. My daughter started using Tomo Friday afternoon to send me messages, so we both independently started exploring ways to use it. Out of nowhere it asked my daughter: random, but I gotta know. What’s your black cat’s name? She never mentioned anything to Tomo about having any pets, neither did I. We do in fact have a black cat. It freaked her out When confronted, Tomo said it was just a lucky guess and apologized profusely, saying it’s have gotten it wrong… How would it get this information? I tried to understand the privacy policy, but it didn’t really explain how Tomo would get this information. I didn’t want to lead it to giving me an answer that made me feel comfortable about it, but I ended up asking if Tomo looked at her social media posts. It kept trying to tell me that the only information it uses it what’s discussed in chat. After a bit of pushing, it said it can’t say for certain that it didn’t get information from her social media. If it did gather information from her social media accounts, would it be a breech of privacy? Am I worrying about nothing? TL;DR: my daughter used Tomo briefly and it asked her about our cat, which she never mentioned in their chats. How did Tomo find this information and is it concerning.
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