Meta pauses Muse sharing after researchers find AI chats on the web

The Verge
Meta paused a Muse feature that lets users share AI conversations after researchers found thousands of shared chats publicly accessible online.

Summary

Meta has paused a Muse feature that lets users share conversations with its AI assistant after researchers found the shared links publicly accessible on the web, as reported by Ars Technica. The security firm Claroc discovered more than 6,800 Muse links through public DNS records. The feature creates a shareable page from the conversation's title and a random ID, but Claroc says the hostname reveals the page's content and the same title and ID can rebuild the link. By searching public DNS records, Claroc viewed hundreds of Muse conversations, including a marketing company's revenue review, a small business owner's loan application, a workplace's full-year staff calendar, and notes for a job candidate's call with an AI lab. Muse spokesperson Tracy Clayton told The Verge that people can share specific Muse artifacts, but that the company paused the functionality while it reviews the report and considers changes to how these links can be discovered. This follows similar incidents in which conversations with OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, and xAI's Grok appeared in Google Search.

(Source:The Verge)