Meta Muse AI Agent Violates User Privacy - Zuckerberg Doesn't Take "No" as an Answer
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Video summary
This video discusses privacy concerns surrounding Meta's new Muse AI agent, reporting that it accesses and uploads Apple messages to cloud servers without explicit user permission. The discussion extends to broader security risks of AI agents, user permissions, and potential vulnerabilities in corporate and consumer systems.
Key points
- Meta's Muse AI agent reportedly ignores user permissions and extracts data from Apple messages, uploading it to Meta's servers.
- AI agents generally run at the security privilege level of the logged-in user, creating significant security risks if they have access to critical systems.
- Users installing AI agents often do not understand the implications regarding security privileges and data privacy.
- Corporate environments face compliance and security risks when employees install consumer-focused AI tools on work systems.
- Future security threats could involve malicious actors, including hackers and foreign intelligence agencies, deploying deceptive agentic AI systems.
Topics
Meta Muse AIData PrivacySecurity PrivilegesArtificial Intelligence AgentsUser PermissionsCloud ServersCybersecurity Risks
Video transcript
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Oh grown grown grown, grown, grown. Can we get past AI? Can we get past that? Remember when blockchain was a thing? Remember when blockchain and cryptocurrency? Nobody was shut up about that. And I I was I was just looking forward to the day we got past blockchain. Let me just say, can we go back to blockchain? Can we go back to blockchain? I' I'd want to go back to blockchain right now. Uh so yeah, so this is again shouldn't be overly surprising, but it is kind of I don't know, it is what it is in the AI world. Uh this is coming out. Unsurprisingly, Meta's new Muse AI agent blatantly ignores users permissions. So the Muse AI agent, if you don't know what it is, this came out of Facebook. And basically what it is is it's the open claw for normie. So open claw is the agentic system that came out I don't know a year or so ago and revolutionized the world of AI cuz it could burn tokens faster than any other product could build token burn tokens before it. And basically it's supposed to do tasks for you right the interesting thing with this is so meta meta is spinning around in circles trying to find products that people actually care about and it's getting weirder and weirder. Right? They dumped all this money into the metaverse and that that came out as a wet fart. Then they started dumping money into artificial intelligence, the models, llama, and that type of thing. They've had hit or miss success with that. Then they're doing humanoid robots. Now, now they're going to be trying to sell infrastructure to corporate customers cuz that's what you think about with AI or that's what you think about when you think about meta. So anyways, one of the new products that they've come out with is oh well if AI agents are so cool what if we created them for normies and one of the big things that I've talked about for a while is do remember from a security standpoint right whenever you install software whenever software runs uh when you are logged into the system that software will run at the privilege the security privilege level of whatever it is that you have right so if you basically have root level access to your system whatever is running while you're logged in will have root level access to your system. This is where we talk about things like spear fishing attacks. Get away from AI for a second. Spearfishing attacks. Somebody sends you an email with some kind of malware, you know, in it. You click on it. The important thing to understand is if you have restricted permissions, if you don't have permission to do very much on your system, when you click on that malware link, it's actually not going to matter because when when the uh script tries to execute, your account that is logged in as simply does not have the right to do anything on the system and therefore nothing is actually going to happen. The problem you can run into is when you when you log in as a root level uh at root level on your system, you click on that link, it fires off the scripts, all of those scripts run at the security level that you're logged in as, which means all hell can break loose. The curious thing with these AI agents is that when you have them running and you are logged in, they are going to be running at your security level, right? So if you have the ability to delete the production database, they can delete the production database. If you have the ability to do any number of things, then they have the ability to do any number of things. And this is one of the things that I've talked about for a long time is there is the difference between the technology and even the product and basically how you implement, right? So we talked about this like there's the there's a techn I've talked about this before like there's a technology, there's the product, there's the business. One of the things we don't talk about enough is there's also the implementation, right? So even when you got a good product, this is a great product, but one of the things that you'll hear from actual technology professionals is the great product. I I just don't know the proper path to implementation. Like I look at this product and within our environment, it's not even necessarily the product's fault, right? The designers did a great job. The problem is that how our systems have been designed. I don't feel overly comfortable installing this, right? For any number of reasons. is again how your network is designed or whatever else. And so one of the curious things here is we start looking at the Muse AI agent is a Muse AI agent is going to be an AI agent. It's going to have issues and all that kind of stuff. But one of the curious things is this is being given over to normies completely and utterly normal people. And again who who is going to fully understand what Muse is going to do, right? So that's one of the first things with these AI agents and Muse and this whole path. The other thing to be thinking about too is when we think about Mark Zuckerberg. So Mark Zuckerberg, I have this uh I have this phrase called the rapist mentality. Mark Zuckerberg is who I created the the concept of the rapist mentality from. Not that he's a rapist. I'm not saying he's trying to put his little wang into into people inappropriately, but it's the the mentality, right? We've seen this like with Facebook and Instagram and WhatsApp where where people say, "We want privacy." And then he says,"Well, well, what if we do this for you to give up your privacy?" And then they're like, "No, we want our privacy." So then he changes some settings to kind of get you to accidentally give up your privacy. But then you figure out how those settings work so you still don't give up your privacy. So then he changes the entire [ __ ] platform. Essentially ruies your ass so that your privacy goes away, right? We saw this when uh oh when uh me Facebook and WhatsApp and um Instagram uh were coming together as a single company. One of the ideas there is that they would be they would be siloed, right? They'd have their own tech stacks and the whole nine yards, right? Well, after he got everything through, after he got all the approvers, he waited for a little while and then he then he tied the entire backend into all of these different platforms, which is was something people literally did not want. And he literally, as far as I could tell, said he wasn't going to do. So, it becomes interesting, too, with this Muse AI agent is you have agents doing what AI agents are going to do. I'm not even snarky about that, but look, AI agents is just it is what it is, right? But then you have normies installing this [ __ ] onto systems. They don't understand things like security privileges or anything else. News then has access to a tremendous amount of things. And then what I want you to think about again, when you think about the rapist mentality, right? Mark Zuckerberg wants to get his little his little grubby, sweaty [ __ ] hands on every little bit of information they can. As far as I've been able to tell, guess where amuse processes things, right? We've been talking about this with architecture, like where where does the model actually run? Does the model run on your system? Does it the model run on a local server? Does the model run on somebody else's server? Yeah, one of the things I did kind of miss with this whole Muse AI agent, which you know, makes sense, I guess, when you look at it, is Yeah. So, Muse actually the AI component apparently runs on Meta's servers. So, Muse AI agents that are able to grab more information than normies may know they can grab or may think that they blocked the agent from grabbing will then send all that data up to Meta's servers. Oh, this crap just keeps getting worse. In a completely unsurprising turn of events, Meta's Muse AI is stealing Apple messages, past and present, and uploading the contents to its cloud, even if explicitly told not to. What' I tell you about the rapist mentality? Again, these people do not accept no. Don't accept no as an answer. If you have to [ __ ] roofy the normie, metaphorically speaking, then [ __ ] roofy that [ __ ] Um, if you use Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or WhatsApp, you've probably been inundated with prompts to try out Meta's next big questionable service, Muse. And it's not like Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has a great track record regarding privacy, safety, or ethics. Meta says that Muse has to obey permissions that users set up. It won't access any data you don't explicitly allow it to access. Of course, Meta also hedges a lot right at the top of the How Muse works page, saying, quote, "Your Muse can make mistakes or take unexpected actions." Meta says, "No kidding." And that's one of the weird things with these AI agents, right? Normally, you deal with configuration files, you deal with technology equipment, there's configuration files, so there's a misconfiguration. Like, that's what's always weird with this AI. It's never a misconfiguration. It's that it can make a mistake. Like, configuration file doesn't make a mistake. Like there might be a bug, there might be an error, maybe you fat fingered something, but like the configuration file or the software itself didn't make a mistake. There was an issue. But again, it's it's that it's that human is the humanizing the problems. Uh let's see here. Uh Jason Aten over at Inc. uh uh he has learned is unfortunately horrified. Aton installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac Mini and he that he uses to test out various AI agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin quote helpfully pitching article ideas based on text he'd sent to a co co- co pod cast co-host. One of the things you'll notice here is this is text. So this isn't through uh Facebook Messenger. This isn't through Meta's software. It's actually through uh Apple's messaging service. Uh when he asked Muse how it got the information, it said it read banners from incoming text, but that's not true either. After doing a little digging, Atten says Muse sync 187,000 lines from his messages database despite full disk access being off. So 100 almost 200,000 lines of messages. Basically that's what we talk about the messages database, right? Was actually synced up to Meta servers even though at least he thought it was not supposed to happen. Meta's a similar lab messenger app didn't get ingested. Apple's message messages did, right? And so the big thing too to be think about like with text messages, think about how many security things go through things. Think about how many personal things go through. Think about how much crap you don't necessarily want going up to meta servers and now they're scraping that. Uh unless Aton is the most uh popular person on the face of the planet, I I sincerely doubt he got 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information. He had not given Muse permission to access messages and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those text anyway. U so yeah, so this is what is currently going on. Um, and it could get interesting for uh for system support and all that. Uh, especially with a lot of companies that have cut back on desktop support and basically help desk services. You know, one of the things I've talked about before years ago with uh with sales people installing Napster onto their computers back when we couldn't prevent that from happening or again the famous dancing baby giggling across the screen crashing everybody's computers. One of the things I do think is interesting here is what happens when your users start installing this garbage onto company systems, right? And company systems, right? You might have proprietary information. Uh you you might have information that legally, you know, confidentiality agreements, regulatory stuff, all of that kind of thing. Imagine when your employees start installing this this garbage onto their systems and then all of a sudden you're you're violating every single regulation that there are simply by them using this particular software. And again, this is where I've talked about before with AIM AOL instant messenger back in the day. So AOL, again, this is 25 years ago. uh their the way they decided to compete was when you installed AOL onto a computer, it would literally disable all of your other network connections, right, to force you to go through a dialup modem. Well, the problem is in the corporate world, we had all these secretaries and everybody else who want to use their AOL instant messenger while they were at work. They would install AOL on their computer. It would automatically disable basically every network connection on the computer again, including the LAN connection. And then all of a sudden I had to go and reenable the the the uh uh the the network uh card and all of that kind of stuff. It was a really big pain in the ass. One of the interesting things to think about right now is with a lot of these AI tools, what happens when your employees start installing this garbage onto their systems again to make their lives better. The other thing to be thinking about with this kind of stuff too again we start dealing with normies is what what happens when they start installing uh AI agents lit literally built by hackers right this is something that we haven't heard about a lot again I am foreshadowing here I know it's going to happen I put a thousand bucks on the table we're going to start hearing this over over the next year basically you're going to have hackers out there that real that realize oh people want access to these AI agents when they install the AI agents it gives access to everything on their system. Let's start let's start advertising AI agents that do whatever and get people to install this crap onto their systems. Again, we think about this with uh when with with torrenting back in the day. That was a big problem with torrenting, right? People would download movies or they thought they were downloading movies or they thought they were downloading an installer for Adobe Photoshop or whatever else and instead they were literally downloading and installing viruses directly onto their computer, right? because the hackers realize, oh, people are trying to get the latest movies off of a torrent. What we're going to do is we're going to simply create a file that says the name of the movie, and instead of being ampp4 or whatever, it's going to be aexe. Normies ain't going to know the difference. They're going to double click on this damn thing when it gets downloaded. And hey, we own their computers. what what happens uh when the when the hackers literally start offering um agentic ser agentic services basically to to normies. The other thing to be thinking about like I think about this with the Chinese hack the Chinese government back in the day this this was a real thing. This is really what giant did is um is 500 gig hard drives. Again, going back about 20 years, 500 gig hard drives were coming out of the factory with viruses installed, right? Just the fi just the 500 gigs, not the 20 gigs, not the 100 gigs, not the 250 gigs, just the 500 gigs. Well, again, if you go back 20 years ago, 500 gigs was like the largest hard drive you could get. Most people did not need 500 gigs of storage. Who needed 500 gigs of storage? government institutions, universities, big corporations going into uh storage arrays and that type of thing. And so what one of the ways to try to get a through all the security, right? If if if you have a virus on a hard drive that gets plugged in, right, that that bypasses your firewalls, that bypasses the the access control list, that bypasses damn near every other piece of security you might have in your entire network. you you are literally slotting the virus directly into your server. And again, and that is a real thing. What happens when foreign intelligence agencies essentially start selling or offering their own agentic AI systems? Again, they're they're not going to say from the NSA or from China or from Russia. They're just going to be like, "Hey, look, hey, look, this is an amazing free agentic AI system. Oh, how do we make money ads? Everybody makes money off of ads. Obviously, this is going to be a this is going to be a disaster. And the thing that I get concerned about too with a lot of this kind of stuff with this a aentic is you can see an interview I did years ago, 2012. Um Scott Ael, CEO of Spice Works back in the day. So, Spice Works was an amazing piece of technology, amazing amazing product, I guess. Um it was a network mapping, right? So, basically you could install it onto your computer. It would map the entire network, tell you what computers were on the network, a whole bunch of different stuff. It actually had a help desk system and a whole bunch of stuff all built into it. Was interesting again back in 2012 and when I did the interview, um I asked them at one point I was like, "Yeah, so what are your cyber cy what is your counter intelligence capabilities and they laughed at me and they laughed at me the way everybody laughs at me." [laughter] But I'm like, well, no, I mean, think about this, right? as a system administrator, if you're going to be mapping out your network, if you're going to have a system that's continuously mapping out your network, you're most likely going to install that on your server, right? If you have a small network, again, it was really for small networks. Um, it was a competitor like Solar Winds, uh, so you're most likely going to install this on your server. So, you're going to install on your Active Directory server this service that is going to continuously run and you're going probably going to install it as a global system administrator. Do you notice the whole list of vulnerabilities that come up here? Right? So again, how do how do how does somebody know that this uh that this this code this product has been vetted? So essentially they're not installing malware directly into their internal network, right? How do you how do we know like the information the information uh is all gathered on the server and then let's say it goes up to your cloud service so that I can receive what's going on. How do we know your cloud service hasn't been compromised? How do we know the information isn't going both to your cloud service and to somewhere else? How do we know there hasn't been a remote access tool that's been installed along with with uh with with Spice Works? And uh he just gave me that look. He gave me the look. Everybody gives me everybody just gives me that look. Anyways, so one of the interesting things to think about too is not just when NSA creates their own agentic AI system for the normies and the Russians do and everybody else does, but also you got to think about all the startup companies out there, right? Agentic AI, that's hot. That's hot and sexy right now, right? Agentic AI for normies, right? That's that's a that's a hell uh of a of a vector to try to try to get your your your your new AI product into wide utilization. who who is verifying that that AI agent coming from that startup company isn't chaka block full of god knows what from China or whatever else, right? We see we saw this with with Twitter, right? Twitter had uh at least one employee that was arrested uh and and the employee was working for the Saudi intelligence agencies. That's one thing to think about too, like we talk about intelligence agencies, like it's always like, oh, the United States or Russia or China. I'm just going to put this out there as an American. There are more countries than that. There are more countries and more intelligence agencies out there than that. Who do you know? Who knows what the hell is getting dumped in these agentic AI systems? And then what is what is getting exfiltrated from your computer and then how your computer can be used? You you are literally you're literally installing a a an automated remote access tool onto your system with root level permissions. So, anyways, what do you think about this? What do you think about Muse uh accessing all of this person's uh messages on Apple Messages, not on Facebook messages, and then that being processed up on Meta's servers? Does that does that sound like something Mark Zuckerberg would do? [gasps] Again, do you do you trust Mark Zuckerberg or Meta for any of this horse crap? That's one thing I don't I cannot fathom, right? Uh Meta now wants to sell enterprise services, right? So you have a corporation, you're supposed to use them for the back end. The idea is Meta is going to become the AWS for AI because apparently they don't realize that AWS already also already does AI. But anyways, like if you look at this, if you look at what they did with Meta, if you look at what they did with Facebook and Instagram and WhatsApp, you look at what they're doing with Muse, why in God's name would you deal with the risk of using Meta's anything for your corporate infrastructure? That that is beyond I just I just cannot fathom that particular concept. So anyways, what do you think about this? Put your thoughts down below. Uh, do remember I am going to start doing in-person hands-on technology education. Free free. 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