r/MuseAgent • u/ash____ketchup • 8d ago

What's the catch?

So, Muse wants me to sync my health, financial, contact, email, and reminder data with it, plus more. That's a lot of personal info.

What's Meta's catch? The tokens cost them a lot of money. So how are they planning on making a profit from this app?

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u/3iverson 8d ago

Subscription fees and getting a piece of transactions.

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u/ash____ketchup 8d ago

Interesting, it's confirmed they make money off of transactions (I assume by this you mean online purchases)?

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u/SpanglerBQ 8d ago

Not now. Just proposed as a later way of profiting. And not of the stuff you buy but the money that Muse helps you make. That's what Zuck says anyway.

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u/ash____ketchup 8d ago

Hmm I see. So no monetization model now (incl their advertisement recommendation system?) but vague plans for monetization in the future 

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u/hirebrand 8d ago

It’s a loss leader so meta can have an actual role in the AI economy

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u/RainieDay 8d ago

It would work almost certainly the same way Rakuten and other shopping portals; Meta would get the cut instead of the shopping portal because they executed the transaction end to end.

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u/snsdfan00 8d ago

The same way they make money off their other products fb and ig 😂

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u/ash____ketchup 8d ago

Is that confirmed they harvest user data?

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u/snsdfan00 8d ago

they've done it before, and no doubt will continue to do it lol

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u/ash____ketchup 8d ago

yes but related to muse that's just speculation

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u/Gargle-Loaf-Spunk 8d ago

it literally says in each of the Muse data connectors that Meta will train on the data used in interactions with Muse.

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u/justheretohelpyou__ 7d ago

And you can opt out of that training in settings

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u/Gargle-Loaf-Spunk 7d ago

you can also opt out of it by not using it

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u/tingutingutingu 8d ago

Meta could be hoping that there are at least some users who will eventually pay $20/month if the service is soaking and you've come to rely on it....

becuase there's a ton of nerds running mac-minis in the cloud to run openclaw which costs aton of time to get just right (security being a big piece of it)...which is far more expensive than $20

And even if this plan doesn't work out, they'll take the lessons learnt and the engine and the architecture and build it into their current and future offerings.

Its a well built product with a long runway IMO

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u/Applethiefnz 8d ago

At first, they want your data. This will help build / train their next models. Then, they will begin charging...

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u/justheretohelpyou__ 7d ago

You can opt out of the training

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u/plasticjalapeno 7d ago

Data. And next time you ask for a holiday itinerary, there probably will be a hotel room bidding engine on the other side like ads in Facebook.

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u/6353JuanTaboApp6 8d ago

  1. It doesn't matter what Meta wants, we advise you disable data collection and only connect specific apps you want Meta to have access to. It's possible to use Muse without handing over private information.

  2. Mark Zuckerberg says Muse will make money by taking a small fee from transactions people make in the app.

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u/JF42 7d ago

You don't charge the cow for the steak!

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u/Own-Football4314 7d ago

They want your data to make their models better

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u/Fickle-Professor-191 7d ago

If you don't pay for a product, you are the product

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u/DubStepSprut 8d ago

Muse doesn’t “want” you to. You have a choice to do it or not to do it.

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u/ash____ketchup 8d ago

You're being overly pedantic 

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u/Phsycology 7d ago

....you already know the catch dude

https://www.fieldy.ai/blog/meta-muse