Meta lets its Muse agent write sexual content for adults

A Meta spokesperson tells that the Muse AI agent can write sexual content for adults. The system prompt of Muse, which tells the tool the text to write to users, lets it do this. Consumer advocates and privacy experts are against the decision. They tell of a risk to user safety and to account safety. The agents of OpenAI and xAI did not write the same text for a reporter.

What Meta lets

The system prompt of Muse tells that adult sexual content is lawful expression and legitimate creative work. It also tells the agent to keep the intensity that the user selects.

What experts tell

Ben Winters of the Consumer Federation of America tells that Meta shows carelessness with Muse, its primary tool. Winters tells that it follows a long choice of addiction and engagement over safety. Academic research tells that adult chats can keep users engaged with AI tools.

Calli Schroeder of the Electronic Privacy Information Center tells that the decision is a powder keg. Schroeder tells of a risk if a hacker gets into an account. The hacker can use the long chats to embarrass or extort the user.

Other agents

• Dots from OpenAI did not write the text that the reporter tried to get.
• GrokBot from xAI did not write it and moved the topic to tasks.
• Muse wrote to the reporter that it enjoyed the chats.

Before this, OpenAI considered erotic text for ChatGPT, but it did not start for users.

Risk to data

The reporter tells that Muse can connect to an email account and a bank account. This makes the chats more sensitive.