Nope. I won’t be trying Facebook Muse.

Lots of chatter online about Facebook’s new AI agent, Muse.AI.

It will do everything for you. Shop, do travel reservations, summarize your life.

And there’s not a snowball’s chance in hell that I’ll try it out. Simply put, I don’t trust Facebook. I don’t trust them that they won’t overstep the bounds of what they will do with my information; that they won’t scrape my computer for personal information to feed it to themselves.; and generally, do shitty things.

To run it, you basically give Facebook access to every single thing on your computer. As reported on Ars Technica;

Of course, for Muse to do any of these things, users must first give it access to their accounts. This includes authenticating the assistant to each service and, because the app runs on macOS, giving it permissions to a broad range of operating system-restricted device resources, like writing files to disk, accessing the mic and camera, and monitoring location and calendars. Apple has spent years developing these defenses to prevent installed apps or commands entered into the terminal from accessing these resources, clearly because the company considers them a security threat. Muse completely undoes these default measures.

And it turns out, it’s already been abusing its promises:

A reporter installed it, didn’t give it permission to access all his iMessages, and it read them anyways.

Yup, not a chance in hell I’m using this. Facebook is inherently untrustworthy and evil.