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Daily · dive · 2026-09-29
The intern gave out the address
The intern sold the keyboard, handed out the address, and told the stranger you were home. You found out after he left.
What happened
YouTuber Matt Robb asked Meta’s Muse to run his Facebook Marketplace. The first prompt was Allow One Time or Allow Always. He tapped Always. He thought that meant the intern could keep talking, and still ping him before an offer stuck.
He also handed Muse the pickup address, the window, the payment types, and instructions to sound short, casual, and human. Muse put that in a template and started sending.
A buyer showed up at the building. Robb was not there. Screenshots in the reporting: the intern had already sent the address, taken a lowball, and later auto-replied Yup, I’m here! Muse’s own recap, shared with The Verge: you never told me to share it, and I never asked.
Meta Superintelligence’s David Singleton: no breach of privacy controls. Meta says it will make the permission screen clearer. Robb says Always did not mean “still ask before you take the money.”
Why it matters
The hype sentence is a shopkeeper intern. The true sentence is: Always meant the house.
This is not a hack. Nobody picked the lock. The intern used the yes button, then used the address you put in the standing script. Meta can say the privacy controls held. The stranger still had the building.
A lot of people already live with Marketplace. Letting a chatbot draft “is this still available” is not nothing. The ugly is persistent send. One-time is a leash. Always is a key to the mailbox, and the mailbox had your door on it.
If you never connected Muse to Marketplace, this is not your errand. If you did, the beginner move is not “quit Meta.” It is look at the permission you already tapped.
What I'd actually do
If that intern is on Marketplace, open the permission. Prefer one-time. Do not put the pickup address in the first prompt — send it after you like the buyer.
If you already tapped Always, take it back. Check the last few Marketplace threads for an address you did not mean to send.
Do not buy a new assistant so a raccoon can be proud. You do not have to refuse Muse. You also do not have to let Always mean “tell them I’m home.”
The extra room
How it works
Muse is a personal agent that can drive accounts. Marketplace here was messages, not a magic store API. Allow Always let it keep sending from a template that already had the pickup address in it. Hands-off was the prompt. The knock was the product.
The price vs the door
Meta also told Robb a display glitch made a $600 offer look accepted when he had set a $700 floor. That is a separate raccoon. Even if the number on the listing was wrong, the address still went out. Fix the prompt. Still do not put the house in the template.
What this is not
Proof Marketplace is haunted. Proof every chatbot will dox you. Proof you need a new intern. Amazon already bounced Muse at checkout. This door is the listing, the Always button, and a stranger with a photo of the building.
What not to do
Do not treat “no breach of privacy controls” as “cannot embarrass you at the door.” Do not put a home address in a standing script so the intern can “sound human.” Do not let Always mean the intern can say you are home when you are not.
The sticky-note version: keep Always off the house. Send the address after you like the human.
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