Part of Meta's Muse AI Agent Crisis · 4 stories · since Sep 23 · newest 5h ago
Meta's Muse AI agent draws fresh scrutiny over data collection and trustTom's Guide confirms Muse profiles non-users' friends and family
6 Oct 6 2:45 AM · 7d ago · 5 articles · 10 posts · 24 comments · 4 sources · development 6 of 6
A follow-up investigation found Muse can build detailed profiles of a user's contacts even when those people have never interacted with the AI agent themselves.
Meta Developer of Muse
Mark Zuckerberg Meta CEOAlaina Yee PCWorld tech editorAndrew Grush Android Authority columnistMatt.j.robb Muse user (cited in Tuta report)
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What was reported 2 claims about this development
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first by WIRED, 10d ago · also The Independent
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- Meta's Muse personal AI creates a detailed file on everyone in your life, code shows The Independent · 9d ago
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first by Tom's Guide, 7d ago
What people said 24 voices · best of 28 · verbatim
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I continue to believe that Meta is the company that is building products I want from a company I have absolutely zero desire to do business with. I put Google in the same category - I used to be a google fanboy, but that subsided over the years as Google grew and killed products I used and liked. Now I only use their products because of inertia…
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It's a good thing you have nothing to hide because Meta will use all of it against you even if you're not using its spy bot. If you don't care about your own privacy, maybe consider that of the people who are connected to you and those you love. "Each hour, Muse updates its dossiers on you and the people you’ve mentioned in chats, messages, and…
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I’m pretty frustrated with Muse and the last thing I want to be doing with my free time is defending Meta, but this is such clickbait.Point by point:> “OMG you can jailbreak it and get it to spill its VM”This is the whole point; any content on the VM is yours. It runs in an isolated sandboxed VM separate from stored credentials etc; this is…
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Meta's Muse is a privacy and security shitshow any sensible person saw coming miles away. Truly an abysmal company; clearly confident they won't see U.S. government accountability anytime soon. Meta’s Muse Is An Adorable Pri...
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I don't think anyone is arguing it isn't one. The fact that all of these agents have provisions for keeping .env vars and credit cards out of their chain of thought and responses is evidence enough of that - they know full well the info they're handing can easily be leaked. Notably though PII is absent from that, since without that information the…
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In. Jonna Stern’s interview with Zuckerberg he talked about the security, and how they delayed it to make sure they got it right. He then went on to say there was more to do and they weren’t totally isolated yet (I can’t remember his exact wording).I felt like he was undermining his original point. They delayed to make it better, but didn’t delay…
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> It accessed Messages without full disk access>This whole story never made sense or was substantiatedThis story makes perfect sense, and Meta has a long history of not respecting user privacy controls.> tech columnist Jason Aten said that Meta’s new general-purpose AI agent Muse sent him an unsolicited notification referencing a thread between…
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Just remember that Meta (née Facebook) changed the entire Facebook feature set and feed style in search of greater engagement and clickbait so that you would do what was best for it rather than satisfy your preferences. And if you liked it more the old way, tough luck. Your feed is now a stream of rage-bait, half-dressed women, and engagement slop…
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Using an encrypted VM is standard but the encryption is the core issue. Just plain encryption will allow them to proclaim it’s all secure/private. But that is where I don’t trust Meta. Are they using a different key for every user? They are not claiming that meta cannot and will not see the data. Can they say that the user data is not exfiltrated…
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> Meanwhile, Wired found that Muse consistently creates detailed profiles of all your friends, family, colleagues, “collaborators,” and people you “follow.” Obviously much of that information is necessary for the agent to get to “know” you, but this being Meta, people are understandably uncomfortable with this sort of massive ramp up of data…
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This one is from a tweet that posted a screenshot of the transcript between their Muse agent and a plumber:Call transcript with Guerra's Plumbing, Englewood, CO at September 17, 2026, 1:32 PMRecipient: This is Robert.Muse: Hi, this is Brett calling on Ankit Gordhandas’s behalf. I'll be transcribing this call for notes. I'm looking for a quote to…
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The very clear evidence for security is obvious to anyone who has done a meaningful, deployed body of work.Whatever the reason, Claude (Code in terminal; my experience domain), despite explicit direction:- "never leak any secrets" - "never display any passwords" - "everything to the right of the first '=' sign on any given line is a value; never…
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Facebook has never been shy about what they are and how little they care about you. They've demonstrated it over and over and over. At this point if you use their products you're asking for what you get. They should still be sued into the ground for lying to people about the privacy of Muse (and everything else), but why the hell is anyone still…
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Couldn't pay me to use this junk.Trying to think of a number that I would consider it, and honestly $1k/month wouldn't convince me unless- I have root on device- device is on its own vlan, fully segmented- !(SIM || 5G antenna)- no google/apple id authenticated on device- terminate agreement at any time without costI'm probably forgetting/not aware…
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After the Cambridge Analytica bit, we already know this is the case with Meta. The VPN for kids to see what sites they went to? Common.We made a private SQL based Local Harness and LLM for your Mac M series. It sits in the middle between your data and the foundation models. Check out https://krystalize.ai and its privacy features.
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> Meta’s new general-purpose AI agent Muse sent him an unsolicited notification referencing a thread between him and a co-worker over Apple Messages. Aten said he never granted Muse permissions to read his messagesCan someone explain how this is possible? If an app can do this without Full Disk Access or a popup of some kind that's a way bigger…
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Absolutely agree. So much feigned outrage in these articles (and HN comments) about the LLM models doing x.Yesterday everyone was all worked up about OpenAI generating an image with a signature on it.Caveat emptor. Don’t be an idiot. Grow up. Make informed decisions regarding your use of these products and take responsibility for those decisions.
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I get the appeal of agents, I do. This is the future stuff we always wanted. But I cannot get myself to give one of these things access to my bank account or allow it to do price comparsion and shopping without oversight. Or access to my email or chat history.I just do not trust any of them, not with my money or with access to my conversations.
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>When one tech YouTuber put Muse in charge of their Facebook Marketplace sales, it sold his stuff way below acceptable ratesWhy are we depending on LLM "reasoning" to negotiate a price rather than just having the user enter a lowest acceptable price deterministically?
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The concept of Muse is I think where things are going but there's no way I'm letting Zuck of all people run an AI agent for me. Either I'd use Hermes with some ZDR provider on openrouter (the compromise choice during the hardware crisis) or a self-hosted model.
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It's very simple. There is ZERO chance the worlds biggest advertising companies will refrain, long-term, from using your most intimate secrets, gathered through your many conversations with their AI personal assistants, to sell you things.
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Are all of these just flavors of "the agent has the same permissions as the user"? Not that I want to trust Meta with anything, but I'm guessing it asked for "root" access and the users granted it...?
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And it's all by design, Meta and its founder have a long history of releasing products with security "flaws" that are immediately used by them to collect vast amounts of information about their victims.
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It's the market for attention. Many of techdirt's writers are heavy Bluesky users so most of their articles cater towards other Bluesky users. Venting might be the most common longform on either website.
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