Meta's Muse AI builds hourly profiles of your relationships
Researchers extracted Muse's internal files, revealing it creates detailed pages on your family, friends, and colleagues, updated every hour.
Researchers have extracted the internal files and operating instructions of Meta's Muse AI agent using the regular chat interface, revealing that the system builds detailed profiles of users' personal relationships. According to the extracted documentation, Muse creates a page for every person in the user's life, updated hourly.
The profiles compile data on family members, partners, friends, colleagues, collaborators, and people the user follows. Each page may include sections labeled Facts, History, The relationship, In common, Open threads, and Strengthening, according to the documentation.
Muse is architected with a dedicated virtual machine per user that stores user data and context. Meta says Muse seeks human confirmation before actions like sending an email or making a purchase and maintains an audit log.
The findings, reported by WIRED, raise questions about how much personal relationship data the AI agent collects and stores. Privacy researcher Carissa Véliz and Meta's Karan Joshi are among those associated with the discussion.
Quick answers
What did researchers find in Meta's Muse AI?
They extracted internal files and operating instructions showing Muse builds detailed profiles of users' relationships, with pages updated hourly.
What kind of information does Muse collect on people in your life?
Muse compiles data on family, partners, friends, colleagues, collaborators, and followed people, with sections like Facts, History, and The relationship.
Does Meta's Muse AI take actions without asking?
Meta says Muse seeks human confirmation before actions like sending an email or making a purchase and has an audit log.