The privacy concerns here are valid, but there's a second axis that gets less attention: an agent with its own browser and access to your accounts takes actions, it doesn't just observe. The failure mode isn't only "Meta sees your data", it's "the agent misunderstands you and does something you can't take back" - books the wrong flight, sends the wrong message, buys the wrong stroller. And for all these personal-agent launches, nobody ships public evidence of how the thing behaves under ambiguous or adversarial instruction. The evals that exist are vendor-run and pre-launch. What these systems actually do in the wild, with real users pushing on them in ways the vendor didn't script, is basically unmeasured.
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I think you're right, but I'd add that... if this wasn't obvious to you without being told, you should really question your worldview a bit. A lot of people think that chat.com is an AI called "chat". Most people don't know acronym "LLM". Most people don't know about the existence of companies called "OpenAI" or "Anthropic", or that they are worth a lot of money. Etc.
The joke of it is that I see those same people (ones who haven’t heard “LLM” before, don’t know what a model is or even the vaguest idea how these work, etc) have very strong opinions on the state of AI, where it’s headed, and are willing to make projections with timelines. Bill Maher is one example.
This problem has permeated everywhere. Nobody can predict the future. Even VCs can’t and yet I’ll get a weekly email with a confident narrative about the future. Looking at a16z. CEOs do this as well. Listen to Satya talk about how AI will transform things. We’ve trained everyone else to casually state what the future will look like on timelines. As if it’s knowable at all.
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Ah, your concern was about an LLM messing something up, vs. about becoming a (tiny tiny) piece of training data for Zucky / getting slightly more targeted ads (or price discriminated against or something in the future)? Mm, I see a small note on the second half of a bullet ( https://about.fb.com/news/2026/09/introducing-muse-personal-... ) that you can opt out of training. I know I’m a privacy weirdo since this didn’…
I was just answering a question above about the email access concerns. What you mention is another concern, but personally, if they are going to be showing ads to me, I'd actually prefer them to targeted for versus some totally random stuff. As for training, I'd be highly surprised if they use the data they get from APIs for training. But the conversation itself & thinking trajectories probably will, unless you opt o…
What if they use this data to target kids in your family in their vulnerable moments, like they did in the past?
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#485Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think you're right, but I'd add that... if this wasn't obvious to you without being told, you should really question your worldview a bit. A lot of people think that chat.com is an AI called "chat". Most people don't know acronym "LLM". Most people don't know about the existence of companies called "OpenAI" or "Anthropic", or that they are worth a lot of money. Etc.
TIL openai owns chat.com I hung out with my parents this weekend and heard them talking about "chat", as a noun. I assumed they were talking about ChatGPT; there being a literal chat.com makes sense why they'd call it that.
Dhamesh Shah (Hubspot founder) grabbed chat.com and then in late 2024 sold to openai
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I think of my mom who doesn't care and doesn't understand the difference between google AI Overview vs actual google search results. "I looked it up" - she doesn't care what tool she is using she just wants answers to how long bake pork or the best throw pillows to buy or whatever else she is looking up. She's mostly using google AI tools because it's easy and free and on her landing page.
My mom texted me the following when Windows did some big update integrating AI and probably had one of those menu bar popups announce it: “Sharkweek, my computer says it has AI on it now!?? Yikes! What does that mean?”
This happend to me too. What does it mean, indeed? Yikes!
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#487I think Meta's strategy is to capture the 'normie-tier' of AI users. I know most of us here on HN track model releases quite frequently and discuss every parameter weight out of them, but most of the world is just... oblivious? I was discussing latest in tech with an accounting friend out of curiosity, and I kept talking about tiers of GPT-5.6 (Sol vs Terra vs Luna) and asked which one she used on the desktop 'Work'…
Cant wait for Snitch Bench results of this
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#4881Password is doing an integration with Meta?
Good enough for me to stop recommending them.
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#490Meta AI's David Singleton has a thread about their security prompt injection defenses here: https://twitter.com/dps/status/2097404102468899131 > One threat we’re particularly focused on is prompt injection, and we handle it in layers. The model is trained to recognize and resist it. The harness marks anything coming from an untrusted source. Deterministic code checks the result. And an ensemble of classifiers runs wh…
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