‘Things may get ugly’: Meta’s new AI Muse is about to make the internet more annoying

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"There's going to be a huge escalation of the problems we're already having with bots," says Calli Schroeder, director of the AI and Human Rights Program at the Electronic Privacy Information Center (Epic) in the US. "What happens if bots send 600 inquiries to a website a day, when normal humans might only send two?" says Shroeder. "Businesses and individuals are going to have a lot to deal with."

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260930-metas-new-ai-is-about-to-break-the-internet

Mark Zuckerberg Wants to Sell You a Tamagotchi? Meet Meta’s Muse Charm

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Meta is developing a handheld device dedicated to letting users access a Muse AI agent. The Charm highlights how Meta is framing Muse as an AI agent that can be easily personalized as a virtual assistant that’s unique to each user. For example, when you start using Muse, Meta encourages you to give it a unique name. Muse also appears as a friendly, furry creature, though you can change its appearance to your liking. That's a big contrast from ChatGPT or Google's Gemini, which converse as faceless chatbots.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/mark-zuckerberg-wants-to-sell-you-a-tamagotchi-meet-metas-muse-charm