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Meta’s New Muse AI Agent Read Jason Aten’s Messages Database

Meta's new Muse AI agent sent Inc. columnist Jason Aten a push notification suggesting a column idea based on a private conversation with his Primary Technology podcast co-host Stephen Robles, despite Aten having explicitly declined to grant Muse access to his messages and calendar. Aten said Muse also flagged a message from his editor about a Monday column deadline, and that when he asked Muse how it knew, the agent did not provide a clear answer.

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Jason Aten, writing for Inc:

Then, yesterday, I was having a conversation with my Primary Technology podcast co-host, Stephen Robles, about the new iPhones. Moments later, I got a push notification from Muse suggesting that the conversation we were having would make for a good column and offered to put together research for me to write about. It even flagged a message from my editor about having a column ready for Monday.

Not only had I not asked it to do that sort of thing, I never gave it permission to read my messages. In fact, I remember explicitly choosing not to let it have access to my messages, calendar, and other personal information.

Stranger still was what happened when I asked Muse how it knew.

Like I told Aten on Threads, Muse was right about one thing: it did give him a good idea for a column.

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