The band Muse has surrendered its Instagram and X handles to Meta after the release of its new AI agent, Muse.

The English rock band Muse has been renamed on Instagram and X from “Muse” to “museband.”

Despite the band Muse having had its Instagram account since 2012 and its X account since 2008, it has seemingly surrendered the handle to Mark Zuckerberg’s newest AI agent.

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[–] 310 points 3 weeks ago (44 children)

"Surrendered" is only applicable if the band had a choice.

Remember folks, calling out shitty wording is necessary to defeat propoganda.

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  • [–] 35 points 3 weeks ago* (42 children)

    They had a choice. They chose to advertise themselves on the "Grandma's Racist Rants And Old White Guys With Sunglasses Who Hate Poor People" platform. Color me shocked that it's turning out to have been a bad choice.

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  • [–] 80 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    I absolutely hate that so many people still use these shit platforms run my the worst people on the planet. That said, if you are famous, there is a dilemma where, if you refuse to use these platforms, someone will make a fake account that purports to be you.

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  • [–] 33 points 3 weeks ago (26 children)

    They chose to advertise themselves on the “Grandma’s Racist Rants And Old White Guys With Sunglasses Who Hate Poor People” platform.

    While true, they also advertised themselves on a platform most Americans use.

    Say what you want about someone's ability to not use a social media platform in the first place, but if you're a band that depends on... people, it's hard to just decide not to put yourself out there on a platform where so many people are.

    The network effect is real. It's where people's friends, family, celebrities, bands, etc all are. Leaving means leaving people who are important to you.

    A lot of people find it easier to leave platforms like Twitter now, because the platform is such a shell of its former self that it doesn't even provide what many people originally came there for, but if you're on Instagram, Facebook, etc, it still often provides people with easy communication to/from family and friends, and organizations like bands with access to an audience, promotion, visibility, etc.

    Leaving the platform means leaving fans, and giving up visibility. I wish everyone could just quit Meta's platforms and crush the company, but there's a very simple collective action problem at play here that makes it very difficult, don't discount that.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

    I think it applies differently to famous, rich, figures who already have an audience. They could loudly announce they're leaving facebook. A chunk of their fans would follow. They're already rich, they can tank losing some fans. It would be better for everyone to get people off Facebook platforms and onto open ones.

    Some local band that's struggling to get their first EP out I could maybe cut some slack on going to where the people are.

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    [–] 191 points 3 weeks ago (19 children)

    Not to defend rich people, but the dude who had X since the beginning of time just had it taken from him. I assume the same thing happened here. They just woke up and were suddenly muse band. Mostly because I dont see Meta or any tech company ever asking for shit nowadays. Just smash and grab.

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  • [–] 29 points 3 weeks ago (13 children)

    I assume Meta can do that for their Instagram account, but not their X account.

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  • [–] 63 points 3 weeks ago (12 children)

    Zuck and Musk are definitely the same kind of loner creeps. They are probably pen pals.

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    [–] 86 points 3 weeks ago

    Having the handle since 2008 and still not owning it says everything. Your account is only yours until the platform wants it back.

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  • [–] 67 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

    It is so odd that everybody seems to dump on facebook (and rightly so), but everybody is still using instagram, perhaps even more than ever.

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    [–] 67 points 3 weeks ago (13 children)

    Here's an idea, stop using Instagram and it will die.

    Come at me.

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    [–] 64 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

    Probably Meta paid them off. I bet the band wasn't even involved, probably Meta negotiated with the marketing division of the record label.

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    [–] 55 points 3 weeks ago (16 children)

    "Your personal AI agent that gets things done" must be this year's most uttered phrase.
    I've yet to see it amount to much.

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    [–] 54 points 3 weeks ago* (3 children)

    They could have just used 'museagent' for the new slop account and left Muse alone.

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  • [–] 49 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

    Rise up and take the power back.

    It's time the fat cat's had a heart attack.

    You know their time's coming to an end...we have to unify and watch our flag ascend.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    Open letter to everyone here, who's tired of these corporate bullshits and wanna take action: Let's start discussing the solid/concrete steps that we can start taking rather than screaming into the void:

    I was personally going after big corporations (To name a few: PayPal, Patreon, Microsoft, Google, anything that Epic Games own, Bandcamp, Artstation, etc.), any state organs who do receive my complaints but hide behind institutional shields, deploying administrative silence, concealing their full name and title during official correspondence and I did and am still getting results through judicial/consumer protection law oriented bodies such as CFPB, DFPI, Federal Trade Commission, and even going after some German judges who refused to initiate a court case when they're informed that the criminals were German police officers. Doesn't matter if it's a company or a judge, you do can go after them. It all boils down to whether you wanna take action or just complain about it online. The latter as we all know doesn't fruit to anything.

    I can create a detailed guideline on how to go after these motherfuckers legally for free, which laws they're blatantly breaking, how to contact these regulatory bodies, what to cite in your legal complaints and so on. We can even start a god damn funding pool to take these motherfuckers to court.

    I'm open to hear anyone's opinion on what else we can do, what steps we can take. If I can get results, imagine the fuss we can create with an unified voice.

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    [–] 46 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    I guess their time was running out.

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    [–] 36 points 3 weeks ago

    Get off of X already, as though there wasn't reason enough before.

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  • [–] 34 points 3 weeks ago

    I'm starting to see the benefits of these federated services

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  • [–] 32 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Muse should join the fediverse.

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    [–] 26 points 3 weeks ago

    I bet this AI agent won’t last 1 year until they rebrand or discontinue completely.

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  • [–] 24 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

    I never realized how crooked Zuck's nose is.

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    [–] 22 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    This is hilarious.

    I bet Muse got paid. If I were in the band I'd say absolutely sell the thing- the Muse AI thing is going to crash and burn anyway so might as well get paid especially if they're too dumb to realize MuseAI would be a better handle anyway.

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  • [–] 21 points 3 weeks ago

    Absolutely insane. If the account was inactive, sure or it was some no name band, ok. But really sucks to see it. I don’t see anything about it, but i hope they were at least compensated.

    I managed to grab a nice 3 letter twitter name that ended up being the name of a company who just had twitter support (before twitter sucked) send me a message and they offered to buy it from me - reasonable price too. I wasn’t holding it for ransom, it also happens to be my initals too, and I just posted family shit, small links, activities, boring shit for friends. I didn’t care and it was still early enough I could get the same 3 letters with 2 numbers after. Walked away with a nice 5k pocket change. Had I declined it might have ended up in court, but this shit looks like the billionaires club just commanded it.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Even @metamuse or @musebymeta would've been fine...

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    [–] 19 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    This means war with your creators

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    [–] 19 points 3 weeks ago

    I hope they can show some spine and just delete their accounts entirely

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  • [–] 19 points 3 weeks ago* (5 children)

    Just fucking ewww why they need to use and taint such general words with their filthy hands.

    Capitalism and capitalists are the root of all evil. In socialist country it would be called "Yopeaiag 242" and be perfectly fine.

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    [–] 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    This is what you get when you use their platform. If muse and others used something they could control with their identity this wouldn't be a problem.

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    How long did the metaverse last? Will muse AI last longer?

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  • [–] 14 points 3 weeks ago

    Congratulations Zuck! You locked down the rights to another metaverse! Everyone knows how crucial the metaverse is in their daily lives.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 weeks ago

    Meh fuck Instagram

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