Claims extracted
20
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
20%
4 of 20 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
not political
takes no side on a contested political question
Publisher signals
66/100
New York Post's corrections and
hedging, across everything collected from it. Not a measure of accuracy.
Outlets on this story
1
Technology
Same framing elsewhere
1
articles that frame the event the way this one does
It’s an AI agent of chaos.
asserted
It → ’ → chaos
Meta’s allegedly ironclad AI assistant Muse sparked privacy concerns after it was caught exposing users’ sensitive and business information.
uncertain
it → spark → information
Ahead of the Muse’s release last month, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg had stressed the “privacy and security” of the cyber secretary, which executes tasks on the users’ behalf, from sending emails to booking travel, Futurism reported.
asserted
Futurism → stress → travel
However, an investigation by security firm Claroc found that the supposedly watertight tech was anything but.
asserted
tech → find → Claroc
The company’s investigators reportedly discovered a glitch that allowed them to access pages from over 6,800 links Muse had created so users could share pages with each other, Ars Technica reported.
uncertain
Technica → discover → other
These included loan applications with the requested amount, bank transaction details, a real estate investor’s internal performance report, and a corporate revenue doc intended for the CEO.
asserted
These → include → CEO
Worst of all, these secrets were unveiled with the push of a button.
asserted
secrets → unveil → button
“If you had asked us beforehand, we would have guessed that gathering these would take real effort,” the researchers wrote.
asserted
researchers → ask → effort
“It took one query.”
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It → take → query
To access this intimate info, the investigators reportedly exploited Muse’s share function, which allows users to share searches, conversations, images, and other content among one another.
uncertain
users → access → one
This content is accessed via AI-generated web links that typically contains a long, cryptic string of characters that theoretically make it hard to hack.
asserted
it → access → characters
However, the Claroc team found Muse’s URLs obvious as they all used the domain name cf.metaaiusercontent.com as well as the AI-generated conversation title alongside the text sequence.
asserted
they → find → sequence
Examples included home-sale-budget-9f21c8a3.cf.metaaiusercontent.com and loan-application-draft-a4c9e2.cf.metaaiusercontent.com.
asserted
Examples → include → home-sale-budget-9f21c8a3.cf.metaaiusercontent.com
“We call these GhostShares: pages that open for people who were never handed the link, and that those people can find on their own,” wrote Claroc.
asserted
Claroc → call → own
In light of the oversight, Muse has shut down the feature.
asserted
Muse → shut → feature
“We’ve paused this functionality while we review this report and consider changes to how these links can be discovered,” company reps told Ars in a statement.
asserted
reps → pause → statement
However, this wouldn’t be the first time someone has allegedly discovered a privacy-violating glitch in the Meta-verse.
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someone → discover → verse
Last week, Meta glasses wearers claimed that the cutting-edge tech specs were listening to them even when set to sleep mode.
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specs → claim → mode
“Meta AI does not respond to me, and I never intentionally activated it,” lamented one Redditor.
asserted
Redditor → respond → it
“I have noticed the white notification light activating while I am speaking normally.
asserted
I → notice → ?
The Aporia
