{"id":637355,"date":"2026-10-05T20:04:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T20:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/637355\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T20:04:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T20:04:15","slug":"metas-muse-is-collecting-information-on-everyone-in-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/637355\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta’s Muse Is Collecting Information on Everyone in Your Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

In typical Meta fashion, the company\u2019s popular new AI agent Muse reportedly keeps detailed, regularly updated files on the people in users\u2019 lives.<\/p>\n

Nearly a month after its launch, researchers are digging into how Muse works. It turns out the AI agent will openly share internal files and instructions when users ask, offering a peek at how it operates.<\/p>\n

One of the somewhat unsettling details is an hourly process that instructs Muse to create and update \u201ca page for every person in the user\u2019s life,\u201d Wired reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Independent AI safety and security researcher Karan Joshi extracted a trove of Muse instructions and system prompts through the app\u2019s regular chat interface and shared the findings with Wired. Separately, The Future Society published<\/a> system instructions from an exported copy of a Muse virtual machine.<\/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 Joshi told Wired. \u201cThey\u2019re trying to know you like a friend, which is honestly pretty creepy.\u201d<\/p>\n

The new details come just weeks after Meta launched Muse on Sept. 8 as a personal AI agent that can handle tasks like sending emails, booking travel, shopping, and tracking goals. To do all that, users give Muse access to a wide range of their apps and accounts. Muse has since climbed to the number-one spot on Apple\u2019s U.S. App Store chart for free iPhone apps.<\/p>\n

But privacy and security concerns have emerged almost immediately.<\/p>\n

For instance, Amazon blocked<\/a> Muse from shopping on its site in September, saying Meta had not notified the company in advance that the agent would access its online shop. The company also raised concerns about how Muse handles customer credentials and account data.<\/p>\n

Meta also recently patched a zero-day vulnerability<\/a> in the Mac version of Muse that could allow malware already running on a user\u2019s computer to hijack the agent and take advantage of permissions the user had previously granted it.<\/p>\n

Now, we have a better idea of just how much Muse keeps track of about users and the people in their lives, even if those people don\u2019t use Muse themselves.<\/p>\n

According to system instructions published by The Future Society, these relationship pages can include a person\u2019s name, how they are connected to the Muse user, recurring topics such as an upcoming apartment move or savings goal, and important dates like birthdays and anniversaries.<\/p>\n

Muse can also keep a history of the relationship, including events or milestones, as well as information about how close the user is to the person, what their relationship is built on, how they interact, and what the relationship appears to need at the moment.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor any agent to be useful and actually help you achieve your goals, it needs to have context about you and those you interact with,\u201d a Meta spokesperson told Gizmodo in an emailed statement. \u201cMuse gathers that based on public information and from what you\u2019ve chosen to share, which is how it remembers the person who just sent you an invoice is in fact the plumber who you previously hired to complete some work in your bathroom or which flowers your spouse said they liked best.\u201d<\/p>\n

The spokesperson added that the information is stored in each user\u2019s dedicated secure virtual machine, which Meta says cannot be accessed by other users\u2019 agents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In typical Meta fashion, the company\u2019s popular new AI agent Muse reportedly keeps detailed, regularly updated files on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,12359,343,344,85,46,1430,26483,125],"class_list":["post-637355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-ai-agent","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-meta","tag-muse","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}