Muse Rolls out Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family
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Key facts
- Welcome to Kernel Panic!, a weekly newsletter by Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess from inside the new world of privacy and digital security
- Independent AI safety and security researcher Karan Joshi could extract an extensive array of Muse instructions and system prompts by using the regular chat interface to ask Muse to copy and share
- Of course, it’s not unusual for AI chatbots to track social information in general—people have been asking ChatGPT for relationship advice for years now
- Meta’s new personal assistant, Muse, has become a viral hit, with millions downloading the AI agent, connecting it to bank accounts, messages, or health data, and allowing it to complete tasks
Summary
Meta’s new personal assistant, Muse, has become a viral hit, with millions downloading the AI agent, connecting it to bank accounts, messages, or health data, and allowing it to complete tasks for them. 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. Independent AI safety and security researcher Karan Joshi could extract an extensive array of Muse instructions and system prompts by using the regular chat interface to ask Muse to copy and share its own software files. One of Muse’s instructions appears to be the ability for it to create “a page for every person in the user’s life.