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System: Control your Mac from anywhere using natural language

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Re: System: Control your Mac from anywhere using natural language

#5
Regardless of whether this is a good idea or not (and I'm in the latter camp to be honest), the docs page is _way_ too low contrast to be readable. I'm all for dark mode but I shouldn't have to be in a completely darkened room to be able to read the fine manual!

Re: System: Control your Mac from anywhere using natural language

#6

Is the LLM guaranteed not to have an existential crisis and delete large amounts of data?

an LLM once had a crisis and decided deleting large pieces of Godot on my laptop was a good idea, they're absolutely not to be trusted

Re: System: Control your Mac from anywhere using natural language

#8
post #3

Anything where an LLM has access to the shell on my personal laptop isn’t “secure” even if you do some hand waving around a split architecture.

Nothing more like playing Russian roulette with your own machine, hoping that when it needs to delete, move or rename a file, you sure hope it doesn't begin running either (especially do not run with --dangerously-skip-permissions):

rm -rf ~/

rm -rf /

mv ~/ ./

Or even creating a faulty symbolic link and above your home directory and suggesting to remove it, then it actually removes everything in that folder including your files in the home folder.

Re: System: Control your Mac from anywhere using natural language

#10

Is the LLM guaranteed not to have an existential crisis and delete large amounts of data?

User: Hey AI, turn off my Mac

AI: (after 10 minutes of deep reasoning) Ah! I found the solution. I need to cause a power surge in the grid to power off your device.

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