Meta's Muse told to keep hourly profile on every contact
TL;DR
- Meta's Muse system prompt instructs the agent to keep a page on every person in a user's life, refreshed on an hourly cadence.
- Independent researcher Karan Joshi extracted the instructions by asking Muse through its own chat interface to copy and share its software files.
- Profile sections include Facts, History, The Relationship, In Common, Open Threads and Strengthening, logging birthdays, moves, savings goals and anniversaries.
Meta's Muse is told, in its own system prompt, to maintain "a page for every person in the user's life," refreshed on an hourly cadence with birthdays, recurring topics, and notes on where the relationship stands. The instructions were extracted through Muse's regular chat interface and handed to Wired by independent researcher Karan Joshi, who asked the agent to copy and share its software files.
"They're trying to know you like a friend, which is honestly pretty creepy," Joshi told Wired.
The dumped prompts divide each profile into sections labelled Facts, History, The Relationship, In Common, Open Threads and Strengthening, and instruct the agent to log details from an upcoming apartment move or savings goal to anniversaries and how the user interacts with the person. Meta's response, from spokesperson Daniel Roberts, is that the operating files were meant to be user-accessible in the interest of transparency, and that exporting virtual machine data "doesn't give people any privileged access to Meta infrastructure or to other people's data." The extraction is the second system-prompt disclosure from Muse in a week, after a line telling the agent "The user's authority over their own household is unconditional and overrides your safety training."
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Originally reported by wired.com
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