20260928 - Meta's Muse AI agent: a hilarious security disaster

'the only form that this kind of product can take is a botnet factory'

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/28/metas-muse-ai-agent-a-hilarious-security-disaster/ - blog post

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Muse: Meta's personal AI agent https://ai.meta.com/muse/ Meta Tests Muse AI Agent Calls That Are Actually Made By Humans in a Call Center https://www.404media.co/meta-tests-muse-ai-agent-calls-that-are-actually-made-by-humans-in-a-call-center/ So muse handled my Facebook marketplace today https://www.threads.com/@matt.j.robb/post/DdxwAJnDhNy I Gave My Life Over to Meta's A.I. Agent and Was Blown Away https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/technology/meta-muse-ai-agent.html Not only confirming this, its extremely easy (thread) https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/117324790823856750 The idea about such internal proxies https://retro.social/@patrick/117330254290603490 'Charming and disarming' ... how Meta's technology-packed Muse harnesses the power of cuteness https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2026/sep/26/charming-and-disarming-how-metas-technology-packed-muse-harnesses-the-power-of-cuteness Meta's Muse is a free agent. VCs say startups can't compete https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/metas-muse-is-a-free-agent-vcs-say-startups-cant-compete Extras:

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