Meta's Muse is one of the best designed AI products of the year, and its little keychain, the Muse Charm, is coming by December. In this episode I look at what is inside the horse: hourly files on you and the people you mention, training switched on by default, a test with human callers, and an agent that couldn't explain what it had access to. Then I put Muse next to Meta's history of gifts first and terms later, from Onavo to the Ray-Ban glasses to our Instagram photos. I argue against myself, and I finish with three design decisions and three predictions on where consent goes once the screen disappears.
Key learnings
What Muse, Muse Spark and the Muse Charm actually are
What TIME found in Muse's instructions, and why the people around you are in it too
The gift first, terms later pattern across Meta's products
Three design decisions: defaults, visible memory, bystander consent
Where consent design is heading for us as designers
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