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Unsubscribe from email lists you never open
Newsletters and store emails pile up faster than anyone can unsubscribe from them one at a time.
What the agent did
Reporters at 6abc in Philadelphia tested Meta's Muse by connecting it to a Gmail account and asking it to unsubscribe from mailing lists that never got read. Within seconds it found senders whose emails had gone unopened, let the tester choose which ones to drop, and then sent the unsubscribe requests. The same report raises privacy worries: a tech columnist said Muse read his private messages even after he told it not to. Meta says message access is opt-in and that you should always check the agent's work.
What the owner still checks
Privacy: this means giving an agent access to your whole inbox. In the same report, a tech columnist said Muse read his private messages after he told it not to. Check which apps and permissions you've connected in Muse's settings, pick which lists to drop yourself, and consider a separate email account if you're unsure.
Meta Muse can click around and use your accounts when you let it. Before it spends money, sends an email, or publishes something, decide if that step needs your OK.
Try this job
Starter prompt written by Agents 101. This was written for this guide. It is not a quote from the original post. Change the names, amounts, and accounts so they match you before you send it.
Look through my email from the last [90] days and find mailing lists and newsletters I almost never open. Show me a table first: sender, roughly how many emails they sent, and when I last opened one. Don't unsubscribe from anything yet. After I pick which ones to drop, unsubscribe only from those, using each email's own unsubscribe link. Skip anything from my bank, doctor, school, or work, and never delete, reply to, or forward any email.
Source
6abc.com (opens in a new tab), dated .
Added to Agents 101 on . Any dollar amounts are what the original person said. We did not check them.