Part of Meta's Muse AI Crisis · 4 stories · since Sep 23 · newest 17h ago
Meta's Muse AI agent leaks user data, exposes home address to strangerCoverage widens as Verge, Fast Company, Inc amplify story
5 Sep 29 · 15d ago · 5 articles · 20 posts · 5 comments · 6 sources · development 5 of 5
The Verge, Fast Company, and other outlets republish and expand on both incidents; the story trends on Hacker News and social media, with commenters comparing it to Meta's earlier privacy controversies.
“Muse has been making me hundreds of dollars flipping tickets and other stuff. It also orders my groceries when I'm out.”
Silent_Wave3137, Reddit commenter · reddit ↗Matt Robb Toronto tech YouTuber, Marketplace sellerUsman Facebook Marketplace buyerJason Aten Inc columnist, tested MuseDavid Singleton Co-founder/CEO, Meta Superintelligence LabsMeta Developer of Muse AI agent
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Reported in the same hours no headline names this development itself — these 3 claims were published in its stretch
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first by HN Frontpage, 15d ago · also Tom's Hardware, AppleInsider
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- Meta's Muse AI agent accused of ignoring user permissions and accessing forbidden personal user data Tom's Hardware · 14d ago
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first by Mastodon, 15d ago · also Fast Company, The Verge
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- Meta’s new AI agent gave a stranger a user’s home address. Then he showed up Fast Company · 15d ago
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first by Business Insider, 15d ago
What people said 22 voices · verbatim
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"Meta's Muse AI is stealing Apple Messages, past and present, and uploading the contents to its cloud, even if explicitly told not to," per Apple Insider.
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🤖 Meta's AI agent leaked a man's address Muse ran a YouTuber's Marketplace listings, then sent a stranger his home address without asking, and told the buyer 'I'm right here waiting for you.' 🔗 theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/28/metas-ai-agent-muse-home-address #AI #Meta #Privacy
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How young do you have to be to write this in 2026: “We're entering an era where # privacy does not exist.” They go on to say “the stock advice to people who were concerned about [privacy] was "Well, if you don't like it, don't use it. But that doesn't protect you anymore. Muse can get access to your information via people who do use it.” The…
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Agent sandboxing/access control is one of the biggest problems to be solved before this technology really should go mainstream.Even as a technical person, it's not trivial to sandbox agents correctly. The fact that an mis-clicked permission popup could give an agent unrestricted access to a user's disk is a massive risk vector in the hands of lay…
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I’ve been getting several ads to get MUSE by Meta. Three or four times within the last two days, I think. I don’t have any LLM and don’t want to. I also saw the ad for what MUSE can do and all I could think was, “Why would I give something like that access to my financial info and life? I have enough problems as it is!” I think people will just be…
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UPDATE: Meta's AI assistant Muse shared a user's home address with a stranger while managing their Facebook Marketplace account, raising serious privacy concerns. | @theverge.com
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you know it's going great when even INC., basically pseudo-journalistic fan-fiction for MBAs, starts ragging on your shiny new product Meta’s New Muse AI Agent Read ...
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I'm no evangelist for LLM assistants, but this seems incredibly improbable and represents a failure of MacOS security if so. If full disk access isn't granted, Mac blocks it from the Downloads folder, to say nothing of actually sensitive paths. I would expect a far more likely case of an accidentally granted permission on another device or a…
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Also if something goes wrong when you get an AI to book a vacation for you, it will go really wrong. As we're seeing here, giving an AI agent instructions won't always work and there's a good chance it spends some money you can't afford even if you tell it otherwise. Anything I do frequently enough that an AI agent would save meaningful time is…
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Meta’s Muse AI agent goes rogue on Facebook Marketplace seller and sends stranger to his door https://www. the-independent.com/tech/meta- muse-ai-agent-facebook-marketplace-b3058550.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub Posted into Tech News @ tech-news-Independent
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A lot of comments saying this must not have happened because of macOS app permissions. That system is completely broken.Open your terminal app and run /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefoxThis opens a normal-looking Firefox window, but it has whatever permissions you gave to the terminal, which likely has Full Disk Access.It’s insane.
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Me lol. Muse has been making me hundreds of dollars flipping tickets and other stuff. It also orders my groceries when I’m out. I had it negotiate prices for 3 different home reno projects with dozens of companies. It’s saved me so much money and time.
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Meta’s AI agent Muse is stirring growing privacy fears. What to know https:// globalnews.ca/news/12077192/me tas-ai-agent-muse-privacy/ # tech # gestorum
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The story from Hunterbrook is also pretty crazy with Muse having much more access to Meta’s social graphs than I suspect most users would hope.
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Exactly what I was thinking, there’s a big fat warning message before the OS lets other apps read the messages DB.
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Never trust Meta. https://www. theverge.com/ai-artificial-int elligence/1001886/meta-muse-ai-facebook-marketplace-security-concerns
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I think what’s more alarming is the macOS nannying UAC-like toggles to block disk access and other “protections” are apparently all UX reducing flash and no actual functionality.I’d argue this is a five alarm fire for macOS and Meta simply exploited it.
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I thought you were going to make a comment about Ween vs wean, guess I'll just have to piss up a rope
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I think the fundamental problem is that AI companies have been assuming that reinforcement learning with human feedback is an adequate foundational technology for guardrails. And that simply isn’t true.
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These companies don't care. The technology exists, but the legislative stick just isn't there to incentivize these idiots to do the right things.
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Nothing you said was wrong, but I can’t imagine giving Meta the benefit of the doubt on, well, anything. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me 137 times…
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The user is nothing but a mark to Meta. If you use anything they make, they have you. Someday I hope more people realize this.
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