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Meta launches Muse AI agent; shares jump on Wall Street betCommentators question whether consumers will trust Muse
5 Sep 8 3:34 PM · 15d ago · 28 articles · 21 posts · 60 comments · 6 sources · development 5 of 6
Tech press and social users focused on the amount of personal data and payment access Muse requires, framing the launch as a test of Meta's credibility on privacy.
“Meta's new personal AI agent Muse wants access to users' email, calendars, payments, health services, and more — making the company's biggest consumer AI bet yet a major test of whether people still trust Meta with their data.”
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first by Mastodon, 15d ago · also Forbes, iClarified, Investor's Business Daily, The Information, WSJ Tech, Axios +1
9 more headlines
- Meta launches personal AI agent, Muse Mastodon · 15d ago
- Meta Launches Muse Personal AI Agent As Staff Flag Security Flaws Forbes · 15d ago
- Meta Launches Muse, a Personal AI Agent That Handles Everyday Tasks iClarified · 15d ago
- Meta Launches Muse, an Autonomous AI Agent Built to Handle Real-World Tasks Techstrong.ai · 15d ago
- Meta Launches Simple-To-Use Muse Personal AI Agent Investor's Business Daily · 15d ago
- Meta Launches Its First Consumer AI Agent ‘Muse’ The Information · 15d ago
- Meta Launches a Personal AI Agent Designed to Be Easy to Use Wall Street Journal · 15d ago
- Meta launches Muse, a personal AI agent that runs on a dedicated VM in Meta's cloud, initially available in the US, with support coming soon for its AI glasses Axios · 15d ago
- Meta's Muse Launches as the Biggest Cross-App AI Agent Yet—With a Security Disclosure Problem Forkast · 15d ago
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TECH CRUNCH: Meta debuts its Muse AI agent. Will consumers trust it? If they use it they're going to have to - it requires that you allow it to slurp up all your data. Avoid this thing like the plague...
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I'm not sure - it may as well be that regular consumers just don't realize they need this and will greatly benefit from it.My personal anecdote - we had a complex family travel in the summer, with 6 ppl and 6 separate flights booked (some multi-leg). SAS messed up on one booking - they decided to cancel the flight we had from Oslo, and rebooked us…
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Meta's personal AI agent Muse is powered by Muse Spark 1.3 and is free for up to 100M tokens per week, with $20 and $100 monthly tiers (Riley Griffin/Bloomberg) https://www. bloomberg.com/news/articles/20 26-09-08/meta-announces-muse-ai-agent-for-personal-tasks-and-organization http://www. techmeme.com/260908/p38#a26090 8p38
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"Meta Pushes Into Personal AI Agents..." @cnbc.com @tcpuente.bsky.social #csulbsoc
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The inline browser the agent uses that you can take control of or watch is awesome! This is something I built a lot of tools to do in the past year (including a similar inline UX/image + click pass through) but having it Just Work in a remote, fully managed client for free is extremely convenient and useful.But… this feels like a UX that won’t…
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Meta and privacy? Hahahah this is like oil and water. Hahah. https://www. wired.com/story/meta-releases- muse-a-personal-ai-agent-with-privacy-built-into-it/
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I think Meta's strategy is to capture the 'normie-tier' of AI users. I know most of us here on HN track model releases quite frequently and discuss every parameter weight out of them, but most of the world is just... oblivious?I was discussing latest in tech with an accounting friend out of curiosity, and I kept talking about tiers of GPT-5.6 (Sol…
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Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent: https:// ai.meta.com/muse/ Discussion: http:// news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4 9615537
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Meta AI's David Singleton has a thread about their security prompt injection defenses here: https://twitter.com/dps/status/2097404102468899131> One threat we’re particularly focused on is prompt injection, and we handle it in layers. The model is trained to recognize and resist it. The harness marks anything coming from an untrusted source…
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I'm excited for this style of agent to become more commoditized. I got access to Instinct recently and quickly found some pretty compelling use-cases for it. Namely, preparing my contracting invoices & drafting outgoing emails for me.The onboarding experience of answering a WhatsApp message asking simply "what have you been putting off?" was…
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I think the product as shown in this marketing material with these examples falls squarely in the “nobody asked for this” territory of AI.At least with B2B AI there is a problem to be solved: reduce my labor costs and increase my business output.What’s happened here is that consumer technology is already solved, but companies like Meta are trying…
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Perhaps a better overview is from Reuters …https://www.reuters.com/business/meta-launches-ai-agent-that...From the article:- … rolled out … despite internal concerns that the technology mismanages its access to sensitive personal data- The product will be available only in the U.S.initially- A basic version of the agent will be available for free…
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Does anyone else remember "Facebook M"?In 2015 Facebook (not yet renamed to Meta) launched a personal assistant named simply "M" that lived in Messenger and functioned remarkably like ChatGPT does today. At the time it was basically entirely humans on the backend, with the idea that they could replace humans incrementally as they collected data…
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This is a pretty good move for Meta to go all in on. AI is ChatGPT and Gemini to normies, Meta is not considered. However when I ask one of my less technical friends if they connected any tools (email, calendar, docs, etc) they are clueless that this is even possible. To them AI answers questions and generates images. If Meta can get this to the…
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I mean, Google and x.AI already have stuff like this. There's plenty of other options as well. And even outside of that, I've heard the promise of "let AI book your reservations!" since before LLMs became a thing.None of this seems new. Maybe polished, but useless to anyone who is seriously using AI for anything important. I imagine this is…
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I had that conversation several times with friends outside of tech. The universal reaction is just a shrug - "my life is boring, what do they care".And yes, you can counter with a hypothetical about a future totalitarian police state, or evil hackers, or whatever, but that makes you sound crazy. In practice, it's a trade-off most people are…
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There are a huge amount of small everyday ‘paper cuts’ this could help with, that I would argue our current status state of technology has actually created and do not work as well as they should right now. For example, I have a WhatsApp group for my child’s classroom. It feels like there are constant barrage of events and dates that constantly…
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Pretty happy with the experience of using it so far. Asked it to do something to blow me away and it made a podcast about the features it made while onboarding itself to my opensource project called DashClaw.Then I had it make a marketing video as a test, pretty neat. Obviously all of this was doable but quite impressed with the model underneath…
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Why would you share data with Meta like this?The Agent Computer is super powerful, but by definition its easier than ever to build one yourself, and a the result is a personal and private computer.I know most "normal" people wont want to build their own this but there are still a lot of options that don't involve giving Meta or Grok all your…
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I think we are lacking in the easy to use side of things. Once you go beyond browser based chatbots things become hard to set up.I see lots of posting about using AI to create patches to get new apps working in wine, or reverse engineering firmware. But every time I’ve tried it it’s been quite a lot of work to set everything up. Even more so if…
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> A personal AI agent can help with everyday tasks like booking reservations, monitoring prices, managing reminders, creating documents, generating images, and researching topics.Always the same thing. I wish product designers would have some modicum of imagination for how agents can actually help people.Literally none of these examples are…
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This is probably why they are launching now. There's no real other competitor right now in the nicely made managed openclaw space for personal use (or at least, very very early. Maybe Grokbot can be considered the lead competitor but afaik it did not gain mindshare). Instinct is supposed to come out soon and by not being associated with Meta it'd…
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I think you're right, but I'd add that... if this wasn't obvious to you without being told, you should really question your worldview a bit.A lot of people think that chat.com is an AI called "chat". Most people don't know acronym "LLM". Most people don't know about the existence of companies called "OpenAI" or "Anthropic", or that they are worth…
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I think of my mom who doesn't care and doesn't understand the difference between google AI Overview vs actual google search results. "I looked it up" - she doesn't care what tool she is using she just wants answers to how long bake pork or the best throw pillows to buy or whatever else she is looking up.She's mostly using google AI tools because…
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