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   Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 06:44:23 JST Electronic Frontier Foundation

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   • Corynne McSherry

   For AI agents to be powerful and personal, they will need significant data access. “When we’re talking about an app that might be able to look at your entire computer, that is really disturbing,” EFF’s @cmcsherr told @washingtonpost. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/01/05/agents-ai-chatbots-google-mariner/

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     ekari (ekari@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 06:59:16 JST ekari

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     @eff @cmcsherr @washingtonpost if I have understood correctly @jolla is working on a thing that does this, but locally. Jolla Mind2 they're calling it.

     It's a box with built-in AI agents, and nothing gets sent to the mothership.

     https://www.jollamind2.com/

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     Urzl (gooba42@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 06:59:49 JST Urzl

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     @eff @cmcsherr @washingtonpost Nope. They can prove it works by providing their data to us and letting the bots play with it.

     They don't get *my* data for their playground.

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     Bandersnatch (bandersnatch@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 08:05:19 JST Bandersnatch

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     @eff @cmcsherr @washingtonpost

     And millions of really stupid people will absolutely jump at this.

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     Brokar (brokar@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 09:14:38 JST Brokar

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     @eff @cmcsherr @washingtonpost

     Yeah, not on my watch. And certainly not on my PC or on my phone.

     Also Google wants me to create an account so i can continue watching videos on Youtube, which i have done for the last 10+ years without ever been accused of being a robot. There will be world peace before that happens.

     Yes, i listened to Kraftwerk, but that doesn't count, right?