Meta's Muse Is Better at Surveilling Than Helping Me
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Consumer AI assistants that default to training on your bank, email, and passport data are turning productivity surfaces into data-harvesting funnels. If you're building an assistant, privacy-by-default is now a competitive feature, not a compliance chore.
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