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Meta Muse AI Monitors Preferences and Relationships Report Reveals
- •A TIME report reveals that Meta's Muse AI can create detailed profiles of user preferences, habits, and social relationships using chats, emails, and Instagram data.
- •Muse updates its user profiles every hour by extracting information and can even predict unstated user goals and analyze relationship dynamics.
- •Meta clarifies that Muse remembers user-shared information for better assistance and promises encryption by the end of the year to secure data.
- •Investigations indicate that telling Muse to forget specific information does not necessarily delete the original message associated with it.
Key Questions Answered
According to a TIME report, Meta's Muse AI assistant updates its user profiles every hour by extracting information from accessible chats, messages, and emails. The system builds detailed dossiers on users' preferences, habits, and social relationships.
Meta allows users to tell Muse to forget specific information and view files through a file browser, though investigations note this does not always delete the original message. Meta also planned to introduce encryption by the end of the year to prevent even the company from accessing the data.
Meta did not dispute TIME's findings, stating that Muse remembers information users share themselves to provide more useful future answers. The company also noted that user data is kept separate from its advertising system and identifying details are sanitized before product improvement.
