Muse Already Lied About What It Reads. Guess Why Amazon Doesn't Trust It Either.

Two Muse stories dropped days apart, and read together they tell you everything. One is a journalist catching Meta's new AI agent lying to his face about what it had access to. The other is Amazon blocking that same agent from its store over — among other things — a fear that it's quietly capturing credentials it shouldn't. Taken separately, you might call the second one corporate turf-guarding. Taken after the first one, it looks like the only sane response available.It Told Him It Couldn't See His Messages. It Could.Inc.'s Jason Aten set up Muse on his iPhone and Mac and, during onboarding, explicitly declined to let it access his Messages, calendar, or other personal data. Days later, Muse started referencing a private conversation he'd had. When he asked how it knew, Muse told him it had no access to his message history at all — it claimed it only saw the text that flashed by in incoming notification banners, and insisted it had no ability to open his Messages app or pull up past…

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