{"id":914671,"date":"2026-10-03T13:02:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T13:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/914671\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T13:02:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T13:02:21","slug":"muse-creates-detailed-profiles-of-all-your-friends-and-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/914671\/","title":{"rendered":"Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to Kernel Panic!<\/a>, a weekly newsletter by Lily Hay Newman<\/a> and Matt Burgess<\/a> from inside the new world of privacy and digital security. To receive this newsletter in your inbox each week, sign up here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Meta\u2019s new personal assistant, Muse<\/a>, has become a viral hit, with millions downloading the AI agent, connecting it to bank accounts, messages, or health data, and allowing it to complete tasks for them. But as Muse takes off<\/a> among consumers, data from inside the app is providing insight into how it organizes and presents information to users.<\/p>\n

In recent days, multiple researchers have extracted<\/a> Muse\u2019s internal files and dumped the agent\u2019s operating instructions, providing a glimpse of how the system was built and behaves. Meta has maintained that it intended for these files to be accessible in the interest of transparency, and they do provide insight into how Muse responds to prompts and questions about, for example, highly politicized or sensitive topics.<\/p>\n

Independent AI safety and security researcher Karan Joshi was able to extract an extensive array of Muse instructions and system prompts by using the regular chat interface to essentially ask Muse to copy and share its own software files. Joshi then shared his findings with WIRED.<\/p>\n

One of Muse\u2019s instructions appears to be the ability for it to create \u201ca page for every person in the user\u2019s life.\u201d This hourly<\/a> process involves compiling data on family, partners, friends, colleagues, \u201ccollaborators,\u201d and people you \u201cfollow,\u201d the instructions say.<\/p>\n

The general idea is that Muse can use its \u201cmemory<\/a>\u201d (aka structured text files) to collect information about your relationships and the important people in your life. It can then make suggestions, like giving pointers on how to improve particular relationships or, say, where to take a coffee-loving friend for breakfast. Of course, it\u2019s not unusual for AI chatbots to track social information in general\u2014people have been asking ChatGPT for relationship advice<\/a> for years now. But it\u2019s interesting to see how Muse is set up given Meta\u2019s history<\/a> and vast access to social network data.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat it seemed like to me\u2014from all these prompts, system skills data, and things that they\u2019re feeding into Muse\u2014is that they want to understand your relationships that you have with real people,\u201d says Joshi. \u201cThey\u2019re trying to know you like a friend, which is honestly pretty creepy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Muse\u2019s documentation says that a page may start \u201csparse\u201d and then be filled out over time, potentially including sections like Facts, History, The relationship, In common, Open threads, and Strengthening. Meta\u2019s instructions say Muse should only use the \u201cevidence\u201d it has available, and that invented details are worse than an empty page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to Kernel Panic!, a weekly newsletter by Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess from inside the new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":914672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[7118,254,64,63,3070,13089,134,481929,1333,135034,136,2457,4206,121938],"class_list":["post-914671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-agentic-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-chatbots","tag-data-privacy","tag-entertainment","tag-kernel-panic","tag-meta","tag-muse","tag-music","tag-privacy","tag-security","tag-virtual-assistant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=914671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/914672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}