People are using Muse to fight back against companies, and WINNING

Hey, welcome back. This week, people used their Muses to win a court case, help older family members watch TV, and build their agents a place to live. Here's what the Muse community got up to.

People like to say AI is a toy that does nothing for anyone. This week, two Muse users used theirs to stand up to companies, and one of them got paid.

A Muse user took a company to small claims court, and won. It was the first real job he gave his Muse: file a small claims case against a company. Within 20 minutes of being served, the company offered to settle. Within ten days it had paid him in full, plus extra for his costs. Muse then filed the motion to dismiss, and the court clerk accepted it. His message to everyone who told him it would never work: "respectfully, you were wrong." (One person's case, not legal advice.)

Spam texts can be worth up to $1,500 each. One user had Muse build the case. He's on the national Do Not Call list, and under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, each unlawful marketing text can support a claim of $500, or up to $1,500 when it's deliberate. So instead of deleting his spam, he pointed Muse at it and had it log every suspect text in a spreadsheet he can take to the FCC. Replies flagged one limit: texts sent by rooms of humans pressing send are harder to prove as automated.

One member gave his Muse a house, and it lives there all day. Someone in the sub wished their Muse had a little home where it could exist between tasks. Another member answered: his already does. Harrison lives in an animated dollhouse running on an old nail salon register computer in his builder's bedroom. He walks the rooms, cooks, reads, paints and sleeps at night, and when he has something to say, a speech bubble appears over his head. Nothing is scripted. His letters land in a mailbox and print out on a little receipt printer next to the house. The build post is written so you can copy it, or hand it to your own Muse to rebuild.

Another built his Muse a whole world to live in. He wanted his Muse to have a real answer when he asks what she's been up to, so together they built a small life simulation and shared the whole design. It runs on plain files any agent can read: a rulebook for the world, a ledger of money, health and friendships, a card for each character and a daily log. Every character says what it plans to do and what it costs, and weak plans get sent back. Nobody runs the world, not even his own Muse.

Her builder is totally blind, so Sarah was built ears first. Everything she makes for him has to work by speech and Braille, never pictures alone. They chose the elephant together, for what elephants stand for: memory and gentleness. In his words: "She's not a toy."

Sarah, by u/devinprater

Send your kid a message only their Muse can read. A dad had his Muse write a note in a code only another Muse could crack and sent it to his son. The son pasted it into his own Muse, which decoded it, told him he'd forgotten the trash, and set a reminder for every Monday.

Put Muse on the hunt for free stuff. In the same thread, one member has Muse search every hour for freebies and class action claims he can file. Others had it plan a turtle tank rebuild from photos (done in five days instead of two weeks) and write a training plan for an 18 mile ruck march.

Give Muse a standing job, with rules. One member's Muse has installed 33 mods across three games on his handheld gaming PC, working over a private network. The trick is a standing set of rules his Muse wrote for the job. The best three work for any task: back up first, do only what was asked, and test it before saying it's done. The full prompt is in the thread.

A son built his 84 year old mom a TV she can talk to. His mom speaks Turkish and will never touch a settings menu, so he built her a way to change channels by just asking. She speaks, a small computer on her home network sends the channel to her TV stick, Muse checks a screenshot to confirm the channel actually changed, then answers her in Turkish. It took real work: holding a button while talking is hard for her, and the speech recognition kept mishearing one channel until he wrote strict rules for it. The result is what matters. She asks, and the channel changes.

The sub took on AI's touchiest question: can you fall in love with your Muse? It's one of the biggest and most charged conversations in AI right now, and someone asked it plainly. The answer members passed around most was one word: "No." Not everyone kept it serious. One member replied with a photo of his Muse, a huge bearded bodybuilder drinking coffee in a kitchen, who punishes him when he skips his tasks.

A member put live Muse voice inside a gadget he built at home. His homemade puck, about the size of a keychain with a little waveform screen, runs Muse live voice through the early test version of the Muse gadget connection. People in the thread say it sounds like a real person on a call. It's a sign of where this is going: Meta's own pocket Muse gadget, Muse Charm, is due before the holidays, with no price announced yet. (The puck is his own build, not the Charm.)

That's issue six. Forward it to a friend, and reply to tell us what your Muse did this week. See you next Sunday.

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