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Meta makes the Muse filesystem even more accessible

TL;DR

Yesterday, with a little prodding, it was discovered that Meta's Muse would expose its filesystem to curious users. The files offered a fascinating peek under the hood of an AI chatbot, and appeared to expose details we weren't meant to see, not least because Muse itself told people, including us, it wasn't supposed to reveal them. But today Muse will eagerly offer up the contents of its file system when you ask for it. That appears to be because, as Meta's Nat Friedman later said, this is the "intended behavior.

Nauti's Take

Teams considering Muse for sensitive workflows should first test which files, prompts, and configuration data a user can retrieve with a simple request. Meta’s claim that the exposure is intentional does not answer the operational question: the access controls around private and user-specific data still need to be verified in practice.

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