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> “nobody asked for this”

I absolutely want a general purpose assistant.

I absolutely don't trust Facebook with the necessary data.

I think they just want to show you ads and help you buy stuff. The incentive is actually to keep the data to themselves so they can monetize access to it via ads.

The shopping experience is significantly less hostile than Amazon’s 1P digital storefront and I kinda don’t care if fb knows that I want to buy a computer.

The only thing to worry about is that they want you to install a native app. But this UX would be difficult to provide for free via the web due to the obvious abuse potential of giving free access to LLMs + remote compute + browser and tool use. And I think as long as you use it to shop or automate web tasks (and give them access to the top of funnel for customer intent, the $300B/yr thing Google monetizes) they don’t really have any reason to abuse your data.

Yes, they have a bad rep, but according to Zuck, Meta put more work into data security than any other agent like this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx8lrn-cytc

Wow, well if the incorrigible Mark Zuckerberg himself says they say they put more work into data security! /s

After everything meta has pulled over the last few decades, do you actually trust in CEO speeches like that?

CEO says something bad: "Look at what the CEO said!" CEO says something good: "you cant trust what he said, he's a CEO"

Pick a lane please

Please apply a little bit of critical thinking. It's a CEO's job to make the company look good. They therefore have an incentive to lie/exaggerate in a way that benefits them. They do not have that same incentive to make their company look bad.

Of course Facebook is putting effort into data security. They spend a lot of money getting everyone's data, they're not going to give it away for free.

  "What do you think of me," I say, as I take off my shirt. My body isn't perfect, but I'm just 8 years old – I still have time to bloom.

-quoting Meta’s exact example of what their top ethicist figures their AI should be happy to respond to [1]

Can’t much trust anything their top people are signing off on. They hurt kids (see IG lawsuits), and thus definitely wouldn’t mind hurting adults like me, so I avoid them whenever I possibly can.

[1] https://reuters.com/investigates/special-report/meta-ai-chat...

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