Stephen Downes

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This is a column from SFGate warning people about MUSE, Meta's personal agent AI. "In addition to storing logins and passwords and linking your bank account information, it wants to see your messages, personal calendar and contacts, requesting more sensitive information than virtually any other AI app, according to ZDNET." The concern isn't so much that it has this information as what it wants to do with it. "The true end users of Facebook are the marketers who want to reach and influence us," media theorist and CNN columnist Douglas Rushkoff wrote in 2013. "They are Facebook's paying customers; we are the product. And we are its workers."

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