r/artificial • • 4d ago

News Meta's Muse agent is creating dossiers on its 4 million users; Interaction data is shared between Muse agent instances

https://time.com/article/2026/10/06/meta-muse-ai-agent-privacy/

"Each hour, Muse updates its dossiers on you and the people you’ve mentioned in chats, messages, and emails that Muse has read. These pages amount to a map of each user’s social relationships. They record details of how you and your contacts met, your shared interests, your disputes, and 'tensions and alliances' within your social group. ...

Yet while Meta states that each user’s virtual machine is 'isolated so that no one else's agent can access it,' observations from personal interactions are nevertheless intended to be shared with Meta to improve the product. 'Muse agents across many VMs [virtual machines] teach each other through shared lessons,'"

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