Meta's Muse Keeps a Page on Everyone in Your Life and Updates It Every Hour. The People on the Pages Never Signed Up
About This Episode
Wired reported on October 4 that a researcher got Meta's hit AI agent Muse to hand over its own operating instructions, which tell it to build 'a page for every person in the user's life' on an hourly cycle: facts, history, the state of the relationship, and ways to strengthen it. Meta says an agent needs context about you and the people you deal with, and that users can wipe it. The people being written up are not asked, and a Hunterbrook Media investigation days earlier showed what the same agent will do with other people's data when a stranger asks.
Our Take
The user said yes to Muse; everyone in the user's life got a file without being asked, so the question the episode carries is who gets a say over a page that is about you but belongs to someone else's agent.
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