Meta's assistant keeps an hourly file on everyone in your life.
A safety researcher asked Meta's assistant Muse to hand over its own instruction files, and it did. Those instructions tell Muse to keep a page on every person you know, refreshed hourly. Meta told Wired the files were always meant to be visible to users for transparency.
Why it mattersMuse has topped the free iPhone chart since September, so those pages describe millions of people. One line in the instructions puts household orders above Meta's own safety training.
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