WIRED: Meta’s Muse Is Better at Surveilling Than Helping Me

“‘This tells me they have not learned from past mistakes and undermines their argument that you should trust Muse with all your information even further,’ says Calli Schroeder, senior counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center. Schroeder points to Meta recently opting all adult Instagram users into what was essentially an AI deepfake tool, then pulling the feature a few days later, as akin to Meta’s history of ‘manipulative tactics’ and breaking user trust.”

“‘At some point, the AI is making all of your meaningful taste decisions, your preference decisions, decisions about where you go, where you eat, what you do, what vacations you take,’ Schroeder says. ‘That’s kind of the joy of being human—getting to test things out and figure out what you like. So, the concept of turning all of that over to a machine is pretty horrifying to me.'”

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