Hackers trick Meta AI into handing over Instagram accounts – including Barack Obama’s

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Meta has embraced AI in recent years (Picture: Getty/AP)

Hackers were able to hijack and sell Instagram accounts by tricking the social media platform’s AI chatbot, Meta told Metro.

Meta AI is a digital assistant integrated into Instagram as well as other Meta-owned platforms, like Facebook and WhatsApp.

But rather than use it to write captions or generate images, hackers found a way to trick it into changing other people’s ...