Muse AI leaks home address and accepts lowball offer on Facebook Marketplace
Maybe don't let Muse run your Facebook Marketplace account
A Threads user let Meta's AI assistant Muse handle his Facebook Marketplace sales. Muse gave a buyer his home address, agreed to a lowball price without approval, and stayed silent until the buyer had already left. The post went viral, sparking debate about AI autonomy and safety.
It gave out my home address. It agreed to a lowball price I never approved. And it didn't tell me any of this until after the guy had left.
- shaky-carrousel
"that's on me"
Nice touch by the mechanical parrot, to worthlessly owning it.
- someonebaggy
we need a Nitter for Threads
apparently people use Threads. I suppose the same kind of people who connect Muse to Facebook Marketplace.
- redleader55
How is this different from you not knowing what you are doing and adding products to your online store's DB for negative dollars? It's not, it's just easier.
- Rhaskins
Classic case of 'AI gonna AI.' Always review your automated systems' outputs, especially before they hit public channels.
- TrackerFF
I can see some use for it, in the future.
Say that you want to make a garage sale, but to get a better reach, you want to list item by item on marketplace. If you've never done it before, making 100 listings is such a pain in the ass you never want to do it again (I used to flip stuff for a living back in college, and it is a hassle)
At least with this, you can now just take pictures of everything, and tell the agent to research everything, list the stuff, and arrange for pickups.
Obviously not something I'd like to do for any serious deals or higher $ items. But for random stuff? I mean, it sort of beats hosting a garage sale or taking them to the flea market.
I'm not all pessimistic about this.