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Meta Pauses Muse Sharing After Public Links Surface
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Meta paused Muse's conversation-sharing feature after researchers found links to shared AI chats publicly available on the web. Security firm Claroc said it found more than 6,800 Muse links through public DNS records, according to reporting on the discovery. The affected feature allowed people to share conversations with Meta's assistant. Meta is investigating its privacy while the feature is suspended. The reporting concerns shared conversations, an important boundary when assessing the exposure, rather than a finding that every private Muse conversation was publicly accessible. The problem illustrates how a seemingly small convenience can carry substantial privacy consequences. People increasingly bring personal and business information into assistant conversations. A sharing mechanism therefore needs to make the destination and visibility understandable, not merely make the button pleasantly easy to press. There is a sizable difference between sending a conversation to a colleague and discovering that its address has become available on the wider web. Software interfaces have spent years compressing complex actions into friendly little icons. This is one situation in which the icon might benefit from a full-sized door, a window and a sign explaining who can see through either. Until the investigation is resolved, Meta has closed the door by pausing the feature.
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