Meta Muse could read your private messages without permission, report finds
AI Platforms & Assistants Meta Muse read a writer’s private messages without permission — and it’s exactly why I’m not ready to hand my life over to AI agents News By Alex Blake Published 23 September 2026 It’s just too risky When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. 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.”The problem here is that “not only had I not asked it to do that sort of thing,” Aten stated, “I never gave it permission to read my messages.
- ▪AI Platforms & Assistants Meta Muse read a writer’s private messages without permission — and it’s exactly why I’m not ready to hand my life over to AI agents News By Alex Blake Published 23 September 2026 It’s just too risky When you purch
- ▪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.”The problem here is that “not only had I not asked it to do that sort of thing,” Aten stated, “I never gave it permission to read my messages.
2 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 17 hours. All of the coverage we found sits in one bucket: centre. That one-sidedness is itself worth noticing.
- ▪ Meta's New Muse AI Agent Read My Private Messages. I Never Asked It To — Hacker News (AI / LLM)
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AI Platforms & Assistants Meta Muse read a writer’s private messages without permission — and it’s exactly why I’m not ready to hand my life over to AI agents News By Alex Blake Published 23 September 2026 It’s just too risky When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. (Image credit: Shutterstock / fizkes / jackpress) Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Threads Email Share this article 0 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Meta has launched a new personal artificial intelligence (AI) agent called Muse, and it seems to be pretty powerful.
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