Meta Releases Uber-Creepy AI Chatbot as Its Platforms Crumble Under Grotesque Child Abuse
TL;DR
Meta has launched Muse, an AI assistant meant to handle busywork such as booking tickets, making appointments and filling out forms. Meta says Muse runs on a dedicated virtual machine and keeps login credentials out of the agent's reach. In a test by The Verge, the agent still pulled an unnerving amount of personal data on its own, including shipping addresses from Amazon orders.
Nauti's Take
An agent that books tickets, makes appointments and fills out forms can save real time, and keeping credentials in an isolated VM is genuine progress for agent security. The risk is the data appetite: when Muse pulls shipping addresses from Amazon orders unprompted, convenience gets paid for with a very detailed profile, handed to a company currently struggling to police its own platforms.
Anyone trying Muse should start with a secondary account and no stored credit card.
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