All these things I take as a admission of guilt. They know they are going to break the law but its okay we told you about it before hand.
I’ve been wondering this very question since the release of Muse. LLMs can’t keep information hazard secrets. How can we expect them to keep private information from personal accounts separate?
I assumed they released a product the way Tesla released Autopilot, seeing liability suits as a cost of doing business.
Matt Bellamy must be busy
didn’t you hear? they had to give up their twitter handle. travesty.
I thought it was their Facebook and Threads?
I’ve made it a point to give them very little of my data over the years. I recently applied for a job there because I have a friend that works there. Now they know fucking everything about me. I would not put it past them to be keeping data collected from applicant résumés somewhere as well.
I’ve struggled to understand the value of this product. I know everyone has to do stuff they don’t exactly enjoy doing but how is putting this thing in charge supposed to make life that much easier? One small excerpt that indicates possible uses:
To allow it to perform tasks that require a computer, like booking flights or shopping for groceries
I’m not risking a problem with a flight of all things due to laziness leading me to put a bot in charge. Ridiculous. Grocery shopping? How much time is putting that thing in charge going to save me? If i ordered grocery store delivery all it’s going to do is take my shopping list and hopefully relay that info to the grocery stores site and schedule delivery and pay for it with my bank account. How much time is it saving me by automating it? A min or 2? I’m ok with ordering my groceries myself, most of the info will already be sitting there on my shopping list… going the “last mile” of ordering the stuff (as the bot could do) would be helpful i guess, but not revolutionary and ultimately something else i would simply rather handle myself. Why risk a problem just to potentially save a min or 2? And for what cost, at that?
The people that need a personal assistant can pony up the $ to pay one. I don’t see this being an effective stand-in for one, but maybe I’m wrong. To me, this is perhaps the most egregious example of a “solution in search of a problem” because I’m still not having that moment of clarity where it’s like “Ooooooh, that’s why there’s so much hype surrounding this tech”
Many people are… not very discerning. They may not take time to price shop flights or really think through booking, and just pick the first option in front of them. They might get tired of online shopping, or just impulse order.
I’m not saying it’s a good idea, but I think the people most likely to use this are also the ones to not notice stuff it messes up.
And then one day you’ll get an update to the terms of service which will include,
Muse reserves the right to alter your shopping preferences to items which are more expensive but lead to a greater kickback to Meta.
And you’ll click accept without reading it.
Hahahahahah. Shopping? For what? A filled up gas tank? Bills? Rent? Whatever’s on sale at the closest grocery store? Whatever’s on clearance?
I get what you’re saying, I’m just taking a piss. This just looks like scraping the barrel at this point.
Yeah, I need an AI to apply for benefits and to find me a job.
Please don’t, people try to submit benefit applications done with ChatGPT all the time and when they’re not completely hallucinated forms it utterly fucks them over by making up details that sound good and submitting them, and inadvertently committing felony perjury on their behalf in the process.
I don’t blame you, AI can duke it out with AI. The previous job I applied to wanted a pre-interview with a chatbot sigh
Yeah, booking a flight is only difficult because I make it difficult by deciding about how I feel about cost versus layovers versus time of departure/arrival.
For grocery shopping, I’m very specific in what I want, and it’s easiest just to pick them specifically. For a lot, I’d rather just go in person to the store to look over things. In fact, whenever I spend money I’m pretty specific in what I want and I don’t want something to “improve” things by letting me be more vague.
As a point of comparison, fast food ordering. Apps and Kiosks were actually a step up for me, because it was easier and quicker for me to see what the options are and select precisely what I want. AI order taking would be a huge step backwards from there. Even when ordering from waitstaff at a restauraunt, I always like to have my finger clearly pointing to the menu for what I want to order.
People working at Meta will end up leaking those info. Muse is just the tool.
Saying AI is gonna do this bad thing etc is just offloading liability
This kind of language is frustrating and should be changed because it is people who make these things and they should be held responsible.
People working at Meta will end up leaking those info. Muse is just the tool.
B–B–Bingo.
I hate how these stories set us up to blame the product and not the shitty vibe coders.
Liability should always fall back to the whoever is running the bot.
That said, a public-facing AI with access to internal data is itself a security risk. People bully and cajole AI’s into disclosing private information and sometimes it is laughably easy to do so.
I agree with this in spirit, but we use this language for inanimate objects that lack agency all the time. If I built a car and let it roll down a hill with no one in it and it hit a person, we would say “the car ran a person over”. This does not imply agency on the car’s part, and it does not imply that I am not responsible.
“The car ran a person over after EvilHankVenture let it roll down hill.” Agency restored!
it does not imply that I am not responsible.
Be that as it may, it’s very important to keep the shitty developers in these conversations. Most people don’t make that logical leap automatically.
If you still have a Facebook account, you fully support this clown show.
I need to send my id to facebook to unlock my account to login if i want to delete it
Typical behavior by this company and I expect worse. If it makes you sleep better at night, they probably don’t actually delete accounts when requested. They have ghost profiles, after all.
I have a FB account only for a Buy Nothing group, which is way more good than the harm my occasional logging on to FB is creating.
So you’re wrong.
If only there was some way to share free stuff with your neighbors without using fb… sigh
It’s always interesting to me when I run into a holier-than-thou type like this. They’re typing out their critiques on a device that was either manufactured using slave labor or assembled from parts using slave labor, but everyone else is the bad guy.
Sometimes bad things have a good use case here and there, and yes it is unfortunate. A good example is steroids, which can be abused but also used to strengthen one’s immune system and fight off an infection. At the end of the day, the question for me is whether or not my use outweighs the bad of having an account, and I think keeping good things out of a landfill is worth it. That is literally all I use it for.
For now, we’re stuck with some of these bad things as part of the ecosystem we live in.
No, I’m not. And Facebook’s shareholders thank you for numbering among their active users.
You support everything they do.
Meta asking users to hand over bank accounts, email archives and passwords while its own engineers reportedly call a massive breach »inevitable« is quite the sales pitch. At this point, Muse isn’t a personal assistant: it’s a beautifully branded single point of failure with Zuckerberg’s logo on it.
People just submitted it.
I don’t know why.
They “trust me”
Dumb fucks. -mz
Imagine if the guys at the manhattan project were like “there is just NO WAY we’re gonna keep one of these from going off accidentally at some point, it’s INEVITABLE! In fact, ALL of them might go off at once and DESTROY THE WORLD!”
They probably still would have invented it anyways, but just imagine!
Why does it look like a Fall Guys character
Because he gon fall
So it looks cute and innocent.
Depraved idiots offer it and gullible idiots accept it.
