Meta's AI agent Muse builds detailed profiles of users' friends and family

On October 3, 2026, Wired reported that Meta's AI agent Muse has been downloaded millions of times, and that the agent can build detailed personal profiles of a user's friends and family members. The report ties that capability to a privacy cost, warning users about the social information agents of this kind collect. As Wired puts it, getting Muse to do your bidding comes at a price in privacy.

That is where the story stands at the moment. What the available coverage establishes is limited to three points: Muse is a Meta AI agent with millions of downloads; it is able to generate detailed profiles of the people close to its users; and Wired frames that ability as a privacy trade-off rather than a neutral feature.

The report does not say which details go into a profile, where that information is stored, how long it is kept, or whether users can switch the profiling off. No comment from Meta appears in the material available so far, and no further developments have been reported since the Wired piece was published.

So the sequence of events is short and still open-ended: a widely downloaded Meta agent, a reported ability to profile the people around its users, and a privacy warning attached to that ability by the outlet that described it. Everything past that point — how the profiles are assembled, what users are told about the practice, and how Meta responds — is not addressed in the current reporting.