Meta's Muse: leaked links, news scraping, and a world of bots
Meta wants its Muse AI agents to run big parts of our lives. In Mark Zuckerberg's vision, your agent shops, works, and talks to other people's agents for you.
But this week was rough. Security researchers at Claroc found that public Muse conversation links were easy to find. They saw a marketing company's internal revenue review and a small business owner's loan application. Meta paused sharing, and has now turned it back on.
Also, Meta changed its business terms to remove words suggesting it could freely train AI on news sites. Legal experts told The Verge this is not enough. Other language could still let Meta scrape them.
Meta asks us to trust its agents with our money and our work. But the basics, like keeping private chats private, are still shaky. Before we let bots talk for us, we need to know who sees what.
