Meta’s agentic AI product Muse has had a rocky few weeks since launch. The product, which features an animated avatar named Jolly (one presumes to make mass hyper surveillance seem adorable) is supposed to help you offload busywork like making restaurant reservations, paying bills, or ordering groceries.
Despite Meta having claimed repeatedly that Muse was built with a heavy focus on privacy and security, the AI agent launched with a nasty zero-day flaw that made it possible to spy on Mac users. When one tech YouTuber put Muse in charge of their Facebook Marketplace sales, it sold his stuff way below acceptable rates and doled out their home address (the user apparently didn’t understand the permissions he set).
