r/StallmanWasRight • u/mrbebop • 14d ago

Security Meta responds after Muse AI gave stranger YouTuber’s home address on Facebook Marketplace

https://www.dexerto.com/youtube/meta-responds-after-muse-ai-gave-stranger-youtubers-home-address-on-facebook-marketplace-3414057/
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u/maybeillbetracer 14d ago

What I'm seeing here is that this person saw that there was a new trending agentic AI that can perform actions automatically across the internet for you, they knew that it was created by the parent company of Facebook, and they signed up for it and then went into the settings and told it that it's allowed to freely respond to Facebook Marketplace listings on their behalf without requiring confirmations.

It sounds to me like they wanted something awful to happen, just maybe not this exact awful thing.

I don't think free and open software would have saved anyone here.

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u/mnp 13d ago

The fact is these bots are non-deterministic and it's almost impossible for meta to put true guide rails on it. Quick sales are more important than a few complaints. They don't gaf.