Researchers extracted the system prompts behind Meta’s Muse agent, and they show it compiles “a page for every person in the user’s life” — family, partners, friends, colleagues — with facts, history, key dates and tips for strengthening each relationship, refreshed hourly. Researcher Karan Joshi calls it “honestly pretty creepy”; Meta says Muse runs on a per-user VM, asks before acting, and keeps an audit log.
The Tech Brew Ride Home is the daily tech news podcast, hosted by Brian McCullough. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
Chapters
0:00 Muse’s system prompts, extracted
0:58 A page for every person
1:59 What goes on a page
2:52 The privacy worry
3:24 Meta’s guardrails
Got a news tip or correction? Let us know
If you got something out of this, please chip in to keep this site running, or subscribe to go ad-free.
0 views