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Meta’s Muse AI Assistant: Hands-on with Its Productivity Features and Privacy Boundaries
Original title:Meta’s Muse AI works and creeps me out
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Meta has introduced Muse, an AI agent pitched as a personal productivity assistant capable of managing email, shopping, and travel itineraries. Hands-on testing shows the tool can execute multi-step routines as promised, yet its ability to autonomously surface and synthesize granular user context provokes unease. As Meta pivots from entertainment-focused chat experiences to high-touch daily utility, the trade-off between task automation and personal exposure comes into sharp relief.
Why it's worth reading
Provides a candid hands-on look at Meta's push into daily productivity agents and highlights the growing friction between automated utility and personal privacy.
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