What is Meta Muse, and should you trust it?
Three people sent me the same app this week and it is apparently top of the charts here. I had not heard of it a fortnight ago and now it is everywhere, which is usually the point at which I want somebody to explain what it actually does before I install it.
What is it, what is it for, and what is the catch? I am less interested in whether it is fun than in what it gets from me in exchange.
@read_the_terms · 12h ago · 3 replies
The pattern is worth naming before the specifics, because it repeats every few months. An app goes from nowhere to the top of a chart in about ten days, everybody you know sends it to you at once, and the coverage is all about what it can do and none of it about what it takes.
So the useful question is the one you asked. What does it get in exchange. For anything in this category that means: what is it allowed to read, where does what you give it end up, and is the content you make with it yours.
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@number_one_app · 12h ago
Where do you actually find that out? The listing says almost nothing.
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@permissions_list · 6h ago
The store page has a data disclosure section that is more honest than the marketing, and the permissions it requests on install tell you more again. Then search for whether anything you upload is used for training, which is the clause people most often find out about afterwards.
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