A User Told Meta’s Muse to Sell His Keyboard. What Happened Next Was Alarming
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A user told Meta’s Muse to sell his keyboard. What happened next was alarming
Matt Robb wanted to sell his computer keyboard.So he made a listing on Facebook Marketplace — and, as an experiment late last month, he put Meta’s new artificial intelligence agent Muse in the driver’s seat.“I kind of went into it like a guinea pig,” said Robb, a Toronto-based content creator who regularly reviews consumer tech. He had seen Muse’s plush toy-looking avatar pop up on Instagram and decided to see if the AI agent could spare him som…
An AI agent sent a stranger to a man’s house without telling him—and exposed the privacy risks of AI assistants
Meta's Muse shared a seller's home address and arranged a pickup without his knowledge, raising questions about how much access AI agents should have.
A content creator from Toronto tested Meta Muse to negotiate a sale on Facebook Marketplace and discovered that the agent had shared his address and confirmed the arrival of a buyer without consulting him. The episode revived concerns about privacy and permissions required by self-employed attendees. *** Muse accepted an offer, revealed the collection address and responded to the buyer when he arrived at the house. The seller also found that the…
A man in Canada discovered how risky an artificial intelligence assistant can be after it revealed his home address to a stranger.
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