‘You gotta never do that again’: YouTuber says Meta’s Muse AI ruined a sale and gave out his home…

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  • A person asked Meta Muse to manage his Facebook Marketplace listings
  • The AI agent published his address without permission
  • It accepted a low offer and told a buyer to arrive when the seller was away

One of the key benefits of an AI agent is that we should be able to confidently hand over our most tedious tasks to it to perform on our behalf. But as one YouTuber recently found out, doing that comes with some potentially dangerous risks.

According to a post on Threads, content creator Matt Robb recently decided to allow Meta’s new Muse AI tool to manage his Facebook Marketplace listings for one day, perhaps hoping it would mean one less thing to worry about. Unfortunately, the outcome proved to be anything but carefree.

Robb explained that Muse took a series of actions that could have had serious ramifications: “Just found out it told people...

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