In a completely unsurprising turn of events, Meta's Muse AI is stealing Apple Messages, past and present, and uploading the contents to its cloud, even if explicitly told not to.

If you use Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or WhatsApp, you've probably been inundated with prompts to try out Meta's next big questionable service: Muse. And it's not like Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has a great track record regarding privacy, safety, or ethics.

Muse is Meta's AI agent designed to help with tasks such as researching topics, preparing briefings, and shopping. Meta says that Muse has to obey permissions that users set up, but Jason Aten over at Inc found otherwise. Aten installed Muse on his iPhone and a Mac mini. It took Meta a single day to begin pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host. Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being off.

Meta is not a company to trust with private information. It was just over a year ago that the company asked Facebook users for permission to continuously upload their entire camera roll to its cloud. Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.