Meta's Muse AI agent builds detailed profiles of everyone in your life, hourly
CarissaVeliz · x · 2026-10-04
WIRED reports on Meta's viral AI assistant Muse, whose internal files researchers extracted to reveal its privacy costs.
- Security researcher Karan Joshi used the regular chat interface to make Muse copy and share its own files, exposing extensive instructions and system prompts
- One instruction has Muse build "a page for every person in the user's life" hourly, compiling data on family, partners, friends, colleagues, and follows
- Meta maintains the files were intentionally accessible for transparency; privacy scholar Carissa Véliz argues Meta's surveillance-based business model incentivizes this design
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