The Becoming
Meta offers no off switch for Muse's memory feature. Its extracted instructions have it build a page for every person in your life, hourly, from what you shared and what is public. The people in the file never chose to be in it.
The Becoming
Meta calls the child-safety question about its Muse mascot "a story in search of a story." Its own month is the story: teen access to its AI characters pulled, a Tamagotchi-style keychain shipping in December, and a data default nobody was asked about.
The Becoming
Anthropic's September report counts 4,700 AI personas and 25,000 people buying coins to talk to them. The most useful line in it is the one about what the model could not see.
The Mirror
An art project collected more than 400 anonymous handwritten confessions from strangers asked to reveal their AI secrets. Read as artifacts, the notes show what people believe agents are — a recognition that settled the question before this week's AGI declaration made it official.