**Meta's Muse AI works and creeps me out**

> Meta just debuted its personal AI assistant Muse. While Muse delivers on its promise of performing tasks in the background, it’s hard to use the tool without thinking about its connection to Meta. Tech Close Tech Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All Tech AI Close AI Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All AI Report Close Report Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All Report Meta’s Muse AI works and creeps me out Muse rattled off very specific interests linked to my Instagram account. Muse rattled off very specific interests linked to my Instagram account. by Emma Roth Close Emma Roth News Writer Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All by Emma Roth Sep 10, 2026, 3:00 PM UTC Link Share Gift I turned my Muse assistant into a purple cat. Screenshot: The Verge Emma Roth Close Emma Roth Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All by Emma Roth is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Meta has launched its new Muse assistant, marking the company’s first real foray into AI-powered productivity tools. The company says its AI agent can “take the busywork off your plate” by helping you with online shopping , emails, trip-planning, and more. I decided to try out the new tool and see how well it performed — especially from a company that previously prioritized entertainment over productivity. Though the AI assistant generally worked as I expected it to, the unnerving amount of information it autonomously gleaned about me largely overshadowed my experience. One of the first tasks I assigned Muse, which carries out actions using a cloud-based virtual computer, was to sort through my Gmail inbox and delete messages I don’t need. That required me to connect Muse to my Google account and give it permission to access, read, and delete emails. The process didn’t go smoothly on mobile; the Google sign-in screen kept glitching and returning me to the Muse website instead of the app. I eventually got it working on my laptop, where it deleted thousands of promotional emails and updates. I didn’t feel good about permitting Muse to view all of my emails given Meta’s track record on privacy over the years. Muse did a good job at clearing out my emails. Screenshot: The Verge Meta says it designed Muse to only exchange data with third-party apps “that’s needed for them to work for you.” The company also says that it doesn’t share your information with advertisers. I still felt uneasy, but I pushed on anyway, linking my Amazon account to Muse. I asked the AI agent to pick out workout tops for me based on a specific size, style, and colors. Before placing the order, Muse noticed I had other items in my cart and asked if I wanted to remove them. The consideration pleasantly surprised me. Once I signed off on the purchase, it proceeded to successfully buy only the tank tops. Shifting gears, I tried out some of Muse’s other capabilities, which allow it to generate AI podcasts similar to Gemini Notebook, create images and videos, as well as develop interactive webpages or documents called “artifacts.” Muse denied my requests to generate images of a “cartoon mouse with red pants” and a “cartoon guy with a red hat, blue overalls, brown hair, and a mustache. However, it readily generated a video and several images of a product launch event featuring devices with Apple’s logo when asked. In one image, Mus...

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- **来源**：Hacker News：AI 热帖
- **分类**：ai-products
- **发布时间**：2026-09-12 00:39（北京时间）
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