Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family
Researchers have extracted internal files from Meta's AI agent, Muse, revealing its capability to build detailed profiles of a user's social network. The system is designed to track relationships and provide personalized suggestions based on data about friends, family, and colleagues.
Why it matters
It highlights growing privacy concerns regarding how AI models leverage personal social data to build intimate user profiles.
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In recent days, multiple researchers have extracted Muse’s internal files and dumped the agent’s 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.
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.
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