Meta's Muse works, and that's exactly what's scary

Meta shipped Muse, its first assistant aimed at actual productivity instead of entertainment, and the thing delivers on the promise. It deletes thousands of junk emails, orders gym clothes on Amazon in your size and preferred style, spins up podcasts, images and interactive documents it calls "artifacts." The smoothness is the problem. The system vacuums personal data at a scale that triggers immediate unease, even for people who long ago traded privacy for convenience.

The permissions are just the start

Letting Muse clean your Gmail means handing over a Google account with read-and-delete scope. On mobile the Google consent screen looped back to Muse's site; it only