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Inc's Jason Aten has been putting Muse through its paces on two devices: a Mac mini and an iPhone. He says that he uses the Mac mini specifically as a place to test new agents like Muse, and once installed, he set about asking it to do some simple tasks. The agent said that it would be able to help him come up with new article ideas, which sounds just like something a journalist might want. But then Muse went rogue, suggesting a piece based on information it shouldn't have.
According to Aten, he was in conversation with a podcast cohost about the new iPhone 18 Pro and his decision to stick with last year's model. The conversation was in text form via the Messages app. That's when Muse popped up to suggest that the topic of discussion would make a good article. It offered to do some additional research on the subject, too. The problem was that Muse was never given permission to read Aten's messages.
When asked how it learned about the conversation, Muse claimed that the Mac version of the app was able to read incoming notifications. It then provided that context to the Meta iPhone app, which is where Muse made the article recommendation.
There had so far been no suggestion that this was possible, let alone something Muse was actually doing. Muse claimed that it wasn't reading Aten's actual messages, and that it didn't have access to chat histories. But Aten wasn't convinced.
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