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- Hacker News
- <s> I'm glad they are completely not creepy for a company that plans to make money by selling your private data. </s>
"Capture the daily moments that define you. Voice the hidden details and tell the story only you can tell."
"We may sell, transfer or otherwise share [..] including personal information"
by fxtentacle - No thanks. And starting by asskissing zuck says you are trying to get acquired by fb, or will be in the future, which is even worse.by tamimio
- Good point about superpowers. But the whole bond.now reeks of the same logic as Mark Zuckerberg.
No thank you. I’ll keep my personal memories personal. Many of them not even digital.
by nojvek - You can tell the people pioneering this are utterly miserable and soulless. "Let's build something to automate all the parts of your life that are actually your life."
What person that was even mildly satisfied with living their life would want this? What's next, agents that play video games and watch tv for me? What's the point?
by JohnMakin - People said this about every new convenience, such as email over physical mail, buying things online instead of in stores, etc. It's a tired argument.by heaney-555
- Freedom to decide? Not that humanity is historically great at deciding what brings itself happiness.by interstice
- What scenarios are you imagining where people are automating away the interesting parts of their life ?
Searching for a new movie to watch can be fun in itself, but it ight not be want I want to do at any specific point in time. So what's so bad about having a system offer me a recommendation?
- i have and continue to build a ton of automations against my life. my goal is to offload more and more of my "life" to it.
- bills? bookkeeping? reading DMARC emails? yeah, i want to do none of it, but i desperately want these chores done.
- spend time with kids? study interesting topics? eat and drink interesting things? i want more of this.
by dfee - Thanks to people pioneering this I can spend a lot more time on the things I want.by hlynurd
- > Zuckerberg promises an agent that understands you, your goals, everything you care about.
I.e. the most dangerous program you can imagine.
by chrisjj - Reducing your whole life down to a "memory currency" is supposed to be a "superpower"? How? It gave excellent examples of other tools that gave us superpowers: GPS, Phone, Internet. But didn't provide a single shred of evidence that this app is also a superpower.
This is an app. Not a protocol, not a platform, an app.
It's just... a way to remember stuff? You're handing all this data to a company, relying on "trust me bro, we'll be responsible" as a promise to be ethical?
This is beyond perplexing.
- I wrote this in 2018:
AI and privacy are incompatible
https://medium.com/@andrewkemendo/artificial-intelligence-an...
Highlight towards the end
“I will make a prediction of my own: more deeply intertwined AI based services will increase the decision making capabilities for users over the next several decades to such an extent, that it will be considered irresponsible not to use them.
Ok, fine then we’ll do it offline!
I can hear you now: “Well fine, I value my privacy but I also agree that these services are beneficial. So we will just make systems that never touch Amazon, Google or Facebook or whatever mega corporation services. We’ll own our own data and I’ll just keep all my private data locally in my own home and have my open source Smart Speaker totally off the grid. Or maybe just send out relevant data where necessary. I’ll build my own DDPG based Deep Learning systems and teach it everything it needs to know!” But will you?”
- You guys have it backwards.
Social media sites (including this one) are the ones tracking you and selling your data to advertisers. It’s technology like Chrome, advertising scripts, Nest in your house that is the spyware you should worry about, insofar that you care about privacy.
An AI model like an LLM or stable diffusion is a read-only, offline technology completely incapable of spying in the way conventional technology already does.
Simply put, “AI” is not a privacy concern. Software that gathers information about users is.
- I was with you all the way up until how you pivot to ad advertorial and become the exact thing you are complaining about.
If you can’t beat them, join them right?
by jonplackett - AI;DR
I keep feeling "surprised" that people who seemingly would know better post stuff that obviously sounds like an LLM. But then I remember, you and I aren't the audience. The audience is investors. And investors seem to love LLM-voice, because…in large part…the LLMs sound as vapid and unhelpful as the VCs.
by jaredcwhite - Does the CEO and co-founder of Bond actually expect folks who read this announcement, as it shifts from Facebook's ambient data collection toward promoting Bond, to give Bond access to their valuable "identity capital" and sign up because they promise to give us more control over how we share our memories with AI and "provide a safe medium" via closed source? Absolutely not. Keep your superpowers offline with a local model.by jakejohnson
- The idea of capturing your memories and letting AI sort through them, tag etc is sort of interesting. But yeah, you can kind of already do this if you really want to with some voice to text and Obsidian and then you don't have to worry that some SF bro is going to break his pinky promise and give your "memories" to the NSA.by jmuguy