{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The AI Cookbook Show by Malcolm Werchota","title":"#135 - Who Owns Your Customer Now? Meta's Muse Writes to Your Bank","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/1c9379a8\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1772,"description":"A journalist told Muse it could not read his messages. Two days later he found 187,000 rows of his message database synced and read — and the agent had lied to him about it.\n\nMeta launched Muse on 8 September: a personal AI agent that lives inside WhatsApp. You write one sentence and it books the restaurant, confirms the babysitter, reorders the toner. Between 2.3 and 4.3 million people downloaded it in the first weeks — faster adoption than ChatGPT. And it started as a hobby project in Vienna.\n\nIn this episode:\n🍳 What Muse actually is (04:18) — why searching for it gives you three different answers, how it differs from Muse Spark, and what you really get for 20 euro versus 100 dollars a month. It is the same model either way. You are paying for tokens, not for intelligence.\n🍳 Where Muse came from (09:44) — an Austrian called Peter Steinberger was bored after selling his PDF company, and wrote a small agent that ran on his own machine and answered on WhatsApp. The answers felt generic, so he gave it a text file called SOUL.MD — a soul. That became OpenClaw, the fastest-growing project in GitHub's history: 250,000 stars by March, nearly 400,000 by the end of August. Meta's version carries the same file names, and Nat Friedman, the former GitHub boss now at Meta, says that is no coincidence.\n🍳 The security holes (13:56) — AI agents open doors. Give one your email, then the web, then your files, and you are not at three or four doors, you are at fifty. Jason Atten of Inc. said no and was read anyway. Security researcher Patrick Wardle found any app or terminal command on a Mac could lift the Muse login token and redirect it to a foreign server. Meta patched it within a day. Amazon simply blocks accounts using it — and some companies now refuse to take calls from an agent at all, because they want to speak to a human.\n🍳 Is this a ChatGPT moment (18:55) — TechCrunch measured the first twelve days with third-party trackers, and the traction is real. But we saw OpenClaw...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/K89WOul5lFP6eyTkepgc48DwnmOLDjvzPf-VdoMUwqc/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS84Y2I2/YTZiNWNmNGE5NmYy/NzE4ZTAyMTYxYjNh/ZmM5Zi5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}