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Re: Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent

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Post by afavour »

shimman wrote: post #77
augment_me wrote: post #33

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There are 3 billion users of FB/WhatsApp/Instagram combined, most people don't give a shit and are just trying to minimize cognitive effort. My elderly parents would absolutely love if someone would just tell them what to do and eat every day because it would mean less planning.

This comment is one of the most dystopian things I've read on this site.

I think the phrasing is a little extreme. Rather than “tell them what to eat” I’d say something like “everyone wishes they had a personal assistant”.

I could do a lot better at meal planning than I do. I rotate between relatively few dishes. An AI that finds recipes and automatically adds the ingredients to my shopping could be interesting. Technically it’s “telling me what to eat” but it’s not like I’m taking orders from it.

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Post by h14h »

I'm excited for this style of agent to become more commoditized. I got access to Instinct recently and quickly found some pretty compelling use-cases for it. Namely, preparing my contracting invoices & drafting outgoing emails for me.

The onboarding experience of answering a WhatsApp message asking simply "what have you been putting off?" was pretty slick. Now I just want to see a version I can run on my own hardware so I don't have to worry about some sketchy company hoarding my data.

I know OpenClaw and Hermes are supposedly answers to this, but I find that they've each become so bloated with features that they're far more difficult to use and bug prone than I'm happy with. I'd prefer something more opinionated that limits the surface area for bugs as well as the number of decisions I need to make as an operator.

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Post by dashundchen »

badc0ffee wrote: post #178
wnevets wrote: post #86

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> There are 3 billion users of FB/WhatsApp/Instagram combined Is there tho? I have Facebook account but don't use it in any meaningful way. I'm certainly not feeding it any new data. I'm curious to know what percentage of that 3 billion are zombie accounts like mine.

FB Marketplace is great.

I actually despise Marketplace compared to the Craigslist days. Unfortunately it seems to be where everyone moved.

Craigslist had no accounts or login wall. Postings were chronological with a map. Simple email for communication rather than FB messenger.

Re: Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent

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Post by threethirtytwo »

RGS1811 wrote: post #13

I have a hard time understanding, given the abundance of bad faith and predatory behavior Meta has displayed over entire span of its existence, why anyone would want to consult with its "personal AI" or grant it access to "all aspects of your life".

Damn yeah why do people even use Facebook or WhatsApp or instagram? How does a company become a multi billion dollar company at all? Guess what.. it’s because people use it and don’t care.

That’s the godawful truth. The other thing you need to realize is not only do people don’t care, but people like you know exactly why meta makes billions. It’s obvious. You seriously expect me to believe you don’t know why a company like meta makes billions? Come on.

It’s sad but thats the way things are. I see someone pretend they don’t get it but if you take the time to think you’ll realize… We all get it. We just can’t face it.

Re: Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent

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Post by wenc »

ipaddr wrote: post #157
cillianpower wrote: post #92

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There almost certainly is. I think on HN people aren’t really aware that they don’t represent the median internet user super well. I would wager if you were to tally every late millennial and zoomer across the west, Instagram usage would probably be near 90%. Facebook usage among older people is also still absolutely rampant, at least anecdotally. Not to mention WhatsApp usage which is huge everywhere but the US seem…

The population of the west who fit into zoomer near millennials wouldn't even be close to 500m. Maybe if we add threads bots we could get closer. Most of the accounts are bots/fake/not used anymore. 90% of zoomers don't have an account, most rarely use it and don't add more than a few photos for social proof.

> The population of the west who fit into zoomer near millennials wouldn't even be close to 500m.

There are many people of all ages not in the west from very populous nations who use Insta, FB and WhatsApp.

I’ve learned that US usage patterns are not representative of rest of world.

More saliently, HN users’ conception of others’ usage patterns are absolutely not representative.

Re: Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent

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Post by badc0ffee »

dashundchen wrote: post #193
badc0ffee wrote: post #178

Earlier quoted context omitted.

FB Marketplace is great.

I actually despise Marketplace compared to the Craigslist days. Unfortunately it seems to be where everyone moved. Craigslist had no accounts or login wall. Postings were chronological with a map. Simple email for communication rather than FB messenger.

I should clarify that what I mean is that it's very useful for buying and selling. Where I live, at least, it's more active than Kijiji or Craigslist ever were.

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Post by Scoring6931 »

smokel wrote: post #120
1123581321 wrote: post #109

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Yes, of course. Wikipedia has a quick summary of the most popular networks ranked by monthly active users. Facebook is #1 and Meta owns three of the top five. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_popular_social_pl...

Those are self-reported numbers from 2023. Besides most likely being highly inflated, I think Facebook is on the decline.

Well, perhaps. But to the same extent that all the other social networks' usage numbers would also be highly inflated.

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Post by ghostpepper »

augment_me wrote: post #33
RGS1811 wrote: post #13

I have a hard time understanding, given the abundance of bad faith and predatory behavior Meta has displayed over entire span of its existence, why anyone would want to consult with its "personal AI" or grant it access to "all aspects of your life".

There are 3 billion users of FB/WhatsApp/Instagram combined, most people don't give a shit and are just trying to minimize cognitive effort. My elderly parents would absolutely love if someone would just tell them what to do and eat every day because it would mean less planning.

One thing they could try eating is glue on their pizza, helps the cheese stick to the toppings

Re: Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent

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Post by crisdias »

cillianpower wrote: post #92
wnevets wrote: post #86

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> There are 3 billion users of FB/WhatsApp/Instagram combined Is there tho? I have Facebook account but don't use it in any meaningful way. I'm certainly not feeding it any new data. I'm curious to know what percentage of that 3 billion are zombie accounts like mine.

There almost certainly is. I think on HN people aren’t really aware that they don’t represent the median internet user super well. I would wager if you were to tally every late millennial and zoomer across the west, Instagram usage would probably be near 90%. Facebook usage among older people is also still absolutely rampant, at least anecdotally. Not to mention WhatsApp usage which is huge everywhere but the US seem…

This. The metric is "monthly active users" but people prefer that other metric "I don't use it, I don't seen anyone using it in front of me, so nobody uses it".

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Post by bossyTeacher »

lxgr wrote: post #183
addandsubtract wrote: post #163

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WhatsApp / Meta is also on both sides of the E2EE.

Sure, but so is every security researcher in the world if they want to be, and they only need to get caught shipping exfiltration logic once.

> so is every security researcher in the world if they want to be

Most security researchers lack Meta's history:

- Testing emotional manipulation features on thousands of users non-consensually

- Adding spyware on underage users

- Intercept a rival app's traffic

- Allowing harm to teen mental health

And most importantly, most security researchers lack the money and power to fend off the legal consequences of these acts.

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