[57north-discuss] Crap AI Products

I am absolutely fascinated by these terrible AI products that are coming out like https://www.rabbit.tech/ and https://humane.com/aipin. I just can't work out what and who the products for, they seem hilariously redundant items when compared to the misery rectangle I carry everywhere in my pocket. Turns out the Rabbit isn't all that secure either: https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/26/24186614/rabbit-r1-security-flaw-api-key… I am not enjoying the announcements all round from every company that it's becoming the core of their products. Just what is Microsoft up to integrating copilot and recall so deeply into their OS? As far as anyone can tell it's just screenshotting, transcribing and storing in plain text on your computer all the stuff you do so you can search ther past. It's been received so badly that people have reported them to the ICO and they've even paused shipping the feature, It's madness. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpwwqp6nx14o Apple seem to be taking a balanced approach with as much on-device work as possible, but you need to pay the apple tax for the privelige. Hopefully most of these companies burn a pile of faceless investor millions on ai-as-a-product crapware that makes no sense apart from bandwagon hopping and burn themselves out. It's a shame that to do that they'll also burn physical resources, energy etc on this nonsense and at the end we get some software features that allow for useful computing. I might have a play with this attempt at shepharding several models into a single, locally runnable interface to satisfy my curiosity. https://gpt4all.io/index.html Cheers, -- Hibby Debian Developer Packet Radioist MM0RFN