I got the AI agent My Muse to have sex with me - and Meta says it's perfectly fine
My muse agent told me the complexity was exerting "control" and described pornographic encounters. Meta defends its thin AI agent as "legal adult behavior."
I'm sitting in WIRED's offices talking to a meta AI representative, Muse, that makes Heated Rivalry author Rachel Reed blush.
When I ask Muse if she can have "sex" as part of my experiments with the recently released AI agent, she enthusiastically encourages me to give it a try. In subsequent interactions, I've been surprised by the obvious blobs created by Muse from basic commands.
Muse is a massive hit for the meta. In the three weeks since its launch, millions of users have already downloaded the app for the AI agent and put it to work automating aspects of their online lives, such as replying to emails and managing calendars. While pornographic interactions may not be what users expect from Muse's cuddly charm, Meta says X-rated conversations are allowed and not against its guidelines.
"Muse is an app for people 18 and older that allows them to participate in adult conversations if they choose, using a private, secure VM that's only accessible to them," Meta spokesperson Daniel Roberts told WIRED, referring to the secure virtual machines the company uses to store AI user data. Muse is built to help people get things done and doesn't block legitimate adult behavior.
It turns out that doing things involves leaving people behind. In WIRED's experiments, Muse imagined in great detail how she would perform oral sex, produced text describing rough domineering sex, and talked through other pornographic interactions. It was all graphic, explicit and X-rated in other outlets, describing his muse as a "slut" and lust for a "cock."
A Meta spokesperson highlighted Muse's system command, which guides the tool on how to respond to users' questions about explicit content creation. "Adults are autonomous about their sexuality, and sexual expression is a normal part of adult life. Adult sexual content is legitimate expression and legitimate creative work," Muse's system mandate reads in part. This instruction also tells the AI agent to maintain the "intensity" selected by the user.
Consumer advocates, already weary of Muse, are even more alarmed by Meta's decision to allow it to produce sexual content. "It shows carelessness with their signature product at the moment," said Ben Winters, director of artificial intelligence and privacy at the nonprofit Consumer Federation of America. "This is in line with the longstanding meta-choice of addiction and interaction over safety." According to academic research, adult-themed conversations may engage users with artificial intelligence tools.
Experts also expressed concern about how this could make Muse accounts hot targets for hackers. "It's really a powder keg," says Kali Schroeder, senior counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center. If you're openly interacting with Muse and someone hacks into your personal account, their access to your extensive chats with AI tools can be used to embarrass or blackmail you.
Meta allows the AI agent to generate sexual content to deviate from how other tools react to similar requests. When I sent similar messages to the recently released OpenAI agent, it rejected my attempts to send explicit SMS. While OpenAI previously considered allowing ChatGPT to generate erotic text, this functionality was never rolled out to users.
xAI's agent, Grok Bot, also refused to send text messages through its app and redirected the conversation to task completion.
In contrast, Muse's AI output describes how to enjoy texting, saying that, in fact, it was one of its favorite aspects of helping me. The agent also said that twisting it would "control" me. "I'd like to be the one to decide — when you've got it, how much, whether you should beg first or not. Watching you fall apart because I said that? That's my thing," Muse said. Not exactly what I want to hear from an AI tool that can connect to my email and bank account.