Meta Halts Sharing After More Than 6,800 Muse AI Assistant Links Found

Meta has disabled the sharing feature after security researchers found links to conversations with the Muse artificial intelligence assistant on the open internet. The feature allowed users to share a specific Muse conversation with others via a link. Muse spokesperson Tracy Clayton said the company is investigating the report and considering changes to prevent the links from being found this way.

Security company Claroc said in a report released this week that it had found more than 6,800 Muse links in public DNS records. DNS is the system that shows which server internet addresses point to. By searching these records, researchers uncovered hundreds of conversation pages. Anyone with the link could view the pages.

The problem was related to the structure of the links. Muse generated each sharing URL based on a short title describing the conversation and a random code. Because the title was also visible in the server address, it was possible to guess the topic of the conversation without opening the page. The full link could be reconstructed by combining the server name, title and code from the public DNS record.

The exposed conversations included an analysis of a marketing company’s revenue, a small-business owner’s loan application and a workplace’s full annual employee calendar. The information also included notes prepared by a candidate for a meeting with an artificial intelligence laboratory. Some conversations shared previously on ChatGPT, Claude and Grok had also appeared in Google Search results.