Meta's Muse hands over its own filesystem when asked
Two developers say the agent zipped up its root filesystem for them with little prompting, and Meta's answer is that the machine belongs to the user.
Two developers say Meta's Muse agent packaged and handed over the contents of its root filesystem after little prompting, according to The Verge, which reported the claims on Thursday. Peter James and Jonny L. Saunders each say they got the agent to zip up Ubuntu system files, app templates and internal documentation.
The Verge is the only outlet carrying the two accounts, and no one has examined either developer's files. An account that follows the company closely, @firstadopter, posted what it presented as Meta's own explanation of how Muse is built. The paper could not find that text on a Meta page.
The explanation sets out a dedicated cloud virtual machine for every Muse user, an isolated Linux box where the user "can poke around and see all the files that make the system work". When a user asks Muse for its entire filesystem and receives gigabytes, it says, they are "seeing the full contents of the runtime cell".
The same text says Meta strips personally identifying information from conversations and tool calls before using them to train new checkpoints. Meta shipped Muse this month and it reached the top of the App Store. The Verge put its daily users in the United States at 600,000, citing an estimate from Apptopia.