The Next WebAna Maria Constantin
Meta denies its Muse AI agent read a journalist’s private messages
Meta has denied that its Muse AI agent read a journalist’s private messages without his permission. Muse can only read Messages on a Mac if the user turns on two separate settings. Meta’s communications chief Andy Stone said so in a post on X on Wednesday.
“It can’t read your Messages unless you do this,” Stone wrote.
Those two settings are Full Disk Access, a macOS permission, and the Messages connector inside the Muse app.
Users can switch the access off at any time, Stone added.
The claim comes from Inc. columnist Jason Aten. He wrote on 19 September that Muse read his messages after he chose not to give it access. Aten installed Muse on his iPhone and a Mac mini to test it.
Days later, Muse sent him a notification suggesting a column.
It drew on a conversation he had just had with his podcast co-host.
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