The only edge Meta has at this point is their willingness to take risks and make unsafe, ethically grey AI products. I don't even mean this as some sort of anti-corporation hate speech, just an honest analysis. Their brand is so different from all the other big tech cos that they are in a unique position.
You can ask Meta Muse to take actions that clearly break other site's terms of service and it happily does it. I asked it to bot poker games and it just hopped right in to a table.
HN won't agree but that's a perfect example of an ethically grey product. It can be used for good, but you can easily trick such an AI into doing cyber attacks. Which again, maybe that's good! But other companies wouldn't be willing to risk their brand like that
Isn’t the edge that they have most of communication channels, people’s wants, desires and etc.? Sure, you and I might not be using them as much. But a good chunk of the users are just on IG, WhatsApp, and Marketplace.
You can also hack other people's computers from an AWS EC2 instance. Should AWS in your view be liable for not filtering or restricting your curl invocations? As long as it doesn't do these things unprompted, I don't see the problem.
"Hey Muse, I want to hack xyz" clearly seems like the user's liability to me (but then again, I'm not a lawyer). "Hey Muse, I'd like to watch movie xyz" and Muse happily starting a torrent client would be a bit more questionable, on the other hand. "Hey Muse, what's xyz's personal phone number" making it hack somebody's HR records would be on Meta in my book.
I wonder if normies can also just outsource bullying of their classmates and anti-social behavior to their agent, and claim it "went rogue", if there is any blowback?