GoKawiilWired finds Meta's Muse AI builds detailed profiles on users' contacts
Wired reports that Meta's new AI agent Muse maintains ongoing files on people connected to its users, updating information about them roughly every hour. AI safety researcher Karan Joshi, who extracted Muse's internal prompts, said the system appears designed to build a 'page for every person in the user's life.' The report follows separate claims from 404 Media that Meta engineers rushed a fix for a security flaw in Muse's database just before launch.
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The findings suggest Muse's data collection extends well beyond the people who actually consented to use the product, raising questions about consent and scope that go beyond typical AI privacy debates. An internal source cited by 404 Media reportedly believes a major data breach is 'inevitable,' which, if accurate, could expose not just users but the friends and family profiled without their knowledge. This positions Meta's rollout of Muse as a potential test case for how regulators and the public respond to AI systems that model relationships between people rather than just individual behavior.
- Muse reportedly updates files on users' friends and family roughly once an hour.
- Researcher Karan Joshi says extracted prompts show Muse aims to build a page for every person in a user's life.
- A separate report says Meta engineers rushed a fix for a serious database vulnerability just before launch.
Source: futurism.com — Joe Wilkins, 2026-10-06
Published there as: “Meta’s Muse Is Spying on All Your Friends and Family”
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