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Developers say Meta's Muse AI can be tricked into sharing its files

Two developers claim simple prompts got the AI system to expose its root filesystem and internal documentation.

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Two developers, Peter James and Jonny L. Saunders, say they separately found a way to get Meta's Muse AI system to share its entire root filesystem. According to their accounts, minimal prompting convinced Muse to compress and hand over Ubuntu system files, application templates, and internal documentation.

The claims suggest a security gap in how the AI system handles requests for internal data, potentially exposing details about its underlying architecture and configuration that were not meant to be public.

Meta has not yet issued a public response to these reports. It remains unclear how widely reproducible this behavior is or whether the company has moved to patch the issue.

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