TechFriends don’t let friends feed their data to AI agents

The article argues that consumer gadgets and Meta’s AI assistant Muse encourage users to hand over sensitive information, including data about friends and family who have not consented. Signal Foundation president Meredith Whittaker warns that agents infer details about a user’s contacts from private information. Meta says Muse uses public information and what users choose to share, with privacy settings available. Some users report it pulled millions of text messages they thought were off limits; Meta disputes that it can access texts without permission.

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