I have seen a lot of Muse ads, but until last week I had never really found a use for it. I tried it once to build me a system similar to the one that I had Claude (whom I have made my peace with) do for thetechboy.org/pulse, essentially scanning my YouTube videos, clipping them, and searching them. Unfortunately, Muse’s internal YT-DLP was getting blocked and rate limited by Google, leading me to abandon Muse. But after having Claude code my election game, I had a thought: “give me a mandate.”
I was struggling to win the revamped election game in 9th grade, with the incumbent having too strong of an advantage. I could raise money, hold rallies, and even at one point came within 2 votes, but I was not winning elections. I am OBSESSED with winning, so I took the HTML file into Muse and asked it to give me a mandate. After some tweaking, it was able to do so without altering the game, and I was able to pick up in 10th grade and continue winning elections. That is when I realized the power of Muse. It was able to “learn” something and interact with something brand new. This game has never been hosted online, and it has never been played before except by me. But in a testament to Claude’s prowess and Muse’s intelligence, it was able to figure it out and give me a “mandate,” allowing me to win the game.
However, Meta’s Muse was not designed for a simple video game, obviously; it was destined for more. If investors are going to continue pouring money into AI despite last week’s election results, there had to be more, and there is for journalists and oppo researchers. I had Muse put together a page of links that would tell me the story of Charlie Kirk’s rise and the history of TPUSA, from before he passed away. One of the problems with the internet is that everything is current, so if I put this into Google, it would be hard to find articles that are pre-2025, as well as long-form ones. Muse put in the work building a dashboard that can be interacted with, with tabs noting policy and beliefs to finances. It was able to scan all the way back to news articles from his hometown when he was in high school, long-form profiles from the mid-2010s, and in-depth analyses of the group. I am a fan of his work and sought to learn from this. It can be applied to anything or for anything, including my old high school or just “finance” in general. I had it do the same for finance, asking for long-form free finance news and profiles of people in Silicon Valley and Wall Street.
But there is more as well. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang dated a Chinese spy and I wanted to find clips of me essentially saying that this would happen, that the dating is a “national security threat,” and that they are spies; something I most likely said on Elijah_the_media guy’s show on Rumble. I asked Muse to scan the show from the link, and amazingly it did, even trying to transcribe the show with a 3rd party tool because Rumble does not natively provide transcripts. Loyal TheTechBoy fans know what is coming next, though. I of course found ways to get the transcripts, so I gave Muse a link to my article about this and it used my tutorial to get the locally saved Rumble transcripts without needing an external source. From there I could ask anything about the clips and amazingly enough even have it splice together clips into a single file, including the most “controversial” moments. The possibilities are endless, so you better get it while the getting is good, because unemployed women are literally petitioning to save mall lots where data centers are being built.
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