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Limitless: Personalized AI powered by what you've seen, said, and heard

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Re: Limitless: Personalized AI powered by what you've seen, said, and heard

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Any data privacy experts here? Could someone explain how data encryption and decryption work here? https://www.limitless.ai/#privacy

Confidential Cloud is similar to end-to-end encryption, but with the added benefit of letting your personalized AI work for you even when you aren’t using the app.

You control who can decrypt your data

Your employer, we as software providers, and the government cannot decrypt your data without your permission, even with a subpoena to do so.

Your data is anonymized

There is an initial mapping from your application request to an anonymous ID, but after that, even we don't know whose encrypted data is whose.

Your data will never be sold

Not only do we pledge never to sell your data, but we couldn't even if we wanted to because we can't decrypt it without your permission.

Envelope encryption with unique secret keys

Data keys are used to encrypt your data and are themselves encrypted under a secret key. No one, including us, can export the secret keys.

Tamperproof hardware

Decrypted data is only ever stored in memory (source: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/kms/latest/cryptographic-details...>), which is protected from tampering by a multi-chip standalone hardware cryptographic appliance (source: https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/cryptographic-module-validati...>).

Protected from 3rd party AI providers

Data sent to 3rd party AI providers for transcription and summarization is anonymized, not used for training, and deleted after 30 days.

Protected from cloud provider and subpoena

AWS KMS (source: https://aws.amazon.com/kms/>) uses FIPS 140-2 (source: https://csrc.nist.gov/CSRC/media/projects/cryptographic-modu...>) validated hardware security modules (HSMs) to ensure no one, including AWS employees, can retrieve your plaintext KMS keys.

Re: Limitless: Personalized AI powered by what you've seen, said, and heard

#23

As is the case with just about all tech service offerings these days, whether they charge you or not, my first question is: How much of the info it extracts from me to provide me with this service is it going to hoard and then resell to others for the sake of "improving user experience" or some other bullshit justification for extracting more money. The ugly thing is that this vast privacy invasion and resell has bec…

They do make some effort to push the “confidential cloud” aspect of their product, where the AI is supposed to somehow operate on your encrypted data, but these days I only believe it when I see the white paper. It is unfortunately quite common in our industry is to posture as more security-conscious and privacy-focused than you actually are.

Re: Limitless: Personalized AI powered by what you've seen, said, and heard

#24

(I'm the co-founder & CEO of Limitless) We are so honored this hit the front page of HN! Here's the video announcement: https://twitter.com/dsiroker/status/1779857843895599383 And timestamps to moments in the video you might be interested in: 0:06 Reveal 0:48 Why Limitless? 1:39 Demo 3:05 Pendant 4:27 Privacy 5:23 Confidential Cloud 6:36 Rewind 7:12 Roadmap 9:25 Vision

I pre-ordered the rewind, and noticed that I'll be upgraded for free! But my question is for the subscription, will there be any discounts for the pro plan?

Also, I do notice that the free version has 10 free hours a month of AI features.

How easy would it be for me to export the recordings, and use it with say Google Gemini Pro for transcribing?

Re: Limitless: Personalized AI powered by what you've seen, said, and heard

#26

(I'm the co-founder & CEO of Limitless) We are so honored this hit the front page of HN! Here's the video announcement: https://twitter.com/dsiroker/status/1779857843895599383 And timestamps to moments in the video you might be interested in: 0:06 Reveal 0:48 Why Limitless? 1:39 Demo 3:05 Pendant 4:27 Privacy 5:23 Confidential Cloud 6:36 Rewind 7:12 Roadmap 9:25 Vision

What is the purpose of an additional device with a microphone? Presumably all of your users already own a smartphone, which already has a microphone.

If Limitless gets PMF, anyone who puts Whisper into an iPhone app will do what you’re doing basically for free.

Re: Limitless: Personalized AI powered by what you've seen, said, and heard

#27

(Co-founder of Limitless here) For any designers / front-end folks here, I wrote a thread going over some of the design details on our new homepage: https://twitter.com/Stammy/status/1779860940541808935

You should consider a blog post on your website, in addition to a post on a closed social media where most people can't read threads anymore.

Re: Limitless: Personalized AI powered by what you've seen, said, and heard

#29

(I'm the co-founder & CEO of Limitless) We are so honored this hit the front page of HN! Here's the video announcement: https://twitter.com/dsiroker/status/1779857843895599383 And timestamps to moments in the video you might be interested in: 0:06 Reveal 0:48 Why Limitless? 1:39 Demo 3:05 Pendant 4:27 Privacy 5:23 Confidential Cloud 6:36 Rewind 7:12 Roadmap 9:25 Vision

What is the purpose of an additional device with a microphone? Presumably all of your users already own a smartphone, which already has a microphone. If Limitless gets PMF, anyone who puts Whisper into an iPhone app will do what you’re doing basically for free.

Hardware is hard. We would have happily done this as a native iPhone or Watch app if it were possible. We explored that first. But, unfortunately both iOS and watchOS don't support it. In particular, anytime you listen to audio (a YouTube video, phone call, etc) it turns off the microphone and you have to remember to turn it back on.

Re: Limitless: Personalized AI powered by what you've seen, said, and heard

#30

As is the case with just about all tech service offerings these days, whether they charge you or not, my first question is: How much of the info it extracts from me to provide me with this service is it going to hoard and then resell to others for the sake of "improving user experience" or some other bullshit justification for extracting more money. The ugly thing is that this vast privacy invasion and resell has bec…

Can't wait for the enterprise version which will take notes on what I do all day and then send them off to my boss.
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