Friends don’t let friends feed their data to AI agents
Now, with the advent of "AI personal assistants" like Meta's Muse, you're being cheerfully asked not just to give up your own data, but also.
The Verge reports: Now, with the advent of "AI personal assistants" like Meta's Muse, you're being cheerfully asked not just to give up your own data, but also.
There's a growing trend in the consumer tech world: gadgets designed to spy on everything and everyone around you, regardless of whether or not anyone else actually consented to it.
This technology story centres on the United States. Names and organisations mentioned in the coverage include AI and Meta's Muse.
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