Meta pauses Muse sharing after researchers find AI chats on the web
Meta says it paused a Muse feature that lets you share conversations with the AI assistant after researchers found the URLs publicly available on the web, as reported by Ars Technica. In a report published this week, researchers at the security firm Claroc say they found more than 6,800 Muse links through public DNS records. […]
A security firm has discovered Muse chats containing sensitive information such as a marketing company’s revenue, a workplace’s calendar, and a loan application. Meta has paused a Muse feature that allows users to share conversations with the AI assistant, following the discovery of publicly available URLs on the web, according to Ars Technica.
Researchers from the security firm Claroc found over 6,800 Muse links through public DNS records. A Muse spokesperson stated that the feature enables sharing specific Muse artifacts, which creates a page accessible by those with the link. However, Meta has paused this functionality to review the report and consider changes to how these links can be discovered.
The issue arises from the way Meta designed these links, making them easy to find, as Claroc pointed out. Claroc found hundreds of Muse conversations, including some containing sensitive information, by searching public DNS records, which act as a directory for web traffic. This is not the first time AI sharing features have made chats more public than intended; conversations with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, and xAI’s Grok have also been found on Google Search.
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