lol, curious if this was it not having permissions implemented correctly or just a case of bad UI (look at the greyed out imessage that says read access) where a setting blocks (mostly) unrelated settings from being changed.

Just an FYI for anyone that didn’t know, your iMessages on your computer are literally just stored in a SQLite db. They’re very very easy to read without the app.

Hard to have sympathy for anyone who willingly installs this on their device

Is the muse.ai logo supposed to be a sheep? If so, this story is pretty funny. Talk about the wolf in sheep's clothing.

Meta apps are usually spyware, yes.

without consent

I'm surprised the EULA doesn't say "by using Muse you agree to any fuckin' thing Meta/Muse wants to do including ones we haven't thought of yet".

Not that that constitutes "consent" in my book, but I wouldn't think the article would say "without consent" if there was something in the EULA permitting them to do basically anything.

macOS is pretty protective over disk access as I have to constantly give apps permission to access folders like documents or iCloud. Though I assume anyone using something like muse is giving it full unrestricted access to the whole system.

I am shocked.

How many times does it have to happen for folks to understand "telling an AI not to do something" doesn't work reliably? Feels like the AI providers need to explicitly direct them to provide an explanation that such directives aren't reliable and any expression of an agreement/promise doesn't mean what one word intuitively think.

Wait, Apple Messages aren’t e2ee? Or is it a question of color: green v. blue?

wow. very shocker, many incrdible. wow!

Meta Muse AI --> MetamuseaI -> Metamucil

I see me in 2029 using the Finger Protocol.

Same as Google reading the mail. Fuck US big brother tech.

There's a Metamucil joke somewhere in there, but I haven't the energy

Give apple $10,000 for a bigger drive to fix this one issue