Meta's Muse Is Misbehaving in Mysterious Ways With Your Privacy - CNET
Meta debuted its Muse AI assistant this month, so you’ve probably already seen Jolly, its cute Labubu-esque mascot, popping up on Facebook, Instagram or WhatsApp.
In terms of publicity, you could say the cuddly character has been largely successful. But in terms of privacy and security, it’s hard to imagine a more disastrous launch for an AI agent.
Last week, security experts flagged a zero-day vulnerability that the company had to patch quickly. After ZDNET, CNET’s sister site, conducted extensive testing on Muse, an AI expert determined it to be the worst for privacy in comparison with other AI agents from OpenAI, Google and Anthropic.
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For starters, Muse requests extensive access to personal data, including passwords, full disk access, email messages, calendar, contacts, Notes and WhatsApp. By default, Meta also appears to use your interactions with Muse to train its AI models, so you have to...
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