Meta's Muse is told to build a page for every person in a user's life, Wired reports, including people who never signed up

Wired reported that the internal instructions of Meta's Muse agent tell it to keep a profile on the people in a user's life. According to IBTimes UK, the instructions call for creating “a page for every person in the user's life,” covering family, partners, friends, colleagues, collaborators and people the user follows. Wired's own page would not open from here, so these findings are given as IBTimes UK and Dimsum Daily report Wired's story; the date here is that of Dimsum Daily's report, 6 October, because Wired's own date is not visible from here.

The instructions came from Karan Joshi, an AI safety researcher, who extracted them and shared them with Wired, IBTimes UK reported. Dimsum Daily said Joshi reported to Wired that he was able to prompt Muse into revealing parts of its internal rules. Because the pages cover anyone the user deals with, people who have never used Muse could still appear in them if information about them is available to the assistant, IBTimes UK said.

Meta's spokesperson Daniel Roberts told Wired that Muse “gathers that based on public information and from what you've chosen to share”, NewsNation reported. Roberts argued that a useful assistant has to remember who people are, such as a plumber who sent an invoice.

The instructions show what Muse is told to do. They are not a count of the profiles it has actually built, and other details circulating about how often the pages are refreshed are credited by different outlets to different researchers, so they are left out here.

• Reported Wired reported that Muse's instructions call for “a page for every person in the user's life,” IBTimes UK said. IBTimes UK
• Reported Researcher Karan Joshi said he was able to prompt Muse into revealing parts of its internal rules, Dimsum Daily reported. Dimsum Daily
• Claimed Meta's Daniel Roberts said Muse works from public information and what users choose to share, NewsNation reported. NewsNation (Yahoo News)