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Hey AgentME, I'm Mael the co-founder of https://snips.ai https://snips.ai, we wrote the article on TechCrunch to explain why we are building an AI which respect

by oulipo 10y ago

Hey AgentME, I'm Mael the co-founder of https://snips.ai https://snips.ai, we wrote the article on TechCrunch to explain why we are building an AI which respect people's privacy. You are entirely right in saying that people mostly wilfully accept to be tracked by companies, but we feel they do because they don't have alternatives, so they can only assume that some services will only be available if they share their data. We are building Snips because we want to prove that it is feasible to build an AI without storing the data of users on websites where it is exposed to hackers or governments, or to future decisions made by the company (or its next "evil CEO") that users may not yet be aware of. We believe it will one day be possible to build our AI alter-egos, capable of doing most grunt tasks at our place, if they can access our most intimate data. And this will be only possible through privacy-by-design Building systems with privacy-by-design is the only workable way to minimize risks over time for users!

strgrd 10y ago
> people mostly wilfully accept to be tracked by companies Most people accept this because they do not know the extent to which they are being tracked, and because they assume their data isn't being widely shared for purposes beyond being served 'better' advertisements. Most people accept tracking because they don't understand the implications of mass surveillance. Most people are unwilling to think about their government's efforts towards population-scale control. Even in the era of surveillance whistleblowing, it is still taboo, and in the realm of conspiracy, to speak of these things. I think the reality is that the demand for truly private platforms will remain very small because people trust Google and Apple, and at the end of the day, they have 'nothing to hide', so mass surveillance does not affect them.

by oulipo 10y ago

strgrd 10y ago

> people mostly wilfully accept to be tracked by companies Most people accept this because they do not know the extent to which they are being tracked, and because they assume their data isn't being widely shared for purposes beyond being served 'better' advertisements. Most people accept tracking because they don't understand the implications of mass surveillance. Most people are unwilling to think about their government's efforts towards population-scale control. Even in the era of surveillance whistleblowing, it is still taboo, and in the realm of conspiracy, to speak of these things. I think the reality is that the demand for truly private platforms will remain very small because people trust Google and Apple, and at the end of the day, they have 'nothing to hide', so mass surveillance does not affect them.