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Meta's AI assistant Muse creates detailed profiles of users' contacts

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Meta's new AI assistant, Muse, has gained significant popularity, with millions of users downloading it and connecting it to personal data like bank accounts and messages. Researchers have accessed Muse's internal instructions, revealing its capability to create detailed profiles for every person in a user's life, including family, friends, and colleagues. These profiles compile data on relationships, suggest improvements, and store personal details like birthdays and past events, raising privacy concerns due to the extensive personal information being collected and inferred by the AI. AI

IMPACT Raises privacy concerns regarding AI's ability to infer and store extensive personal relationship data.

RANK_REASON AI-adjacent product launch with privacy concerns.

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Meta's AI assistant Muse creates detailed profiles of users' contacts

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COVERAGE [1]

  1. Wired — AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Lily Hay Newman, Matt Burgess ·

    Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family

    Millions have downloaded Meta’s AI agent Muse. But getting it to do your bidding comes with privacy costs.

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