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Judging from the website, Muse seems to be too keen on making me buy things - Book Tickets, Buy a Stroller. Would this personal AI spam me with ads randomly lik

• laweijfmvo 25d ago
  having used it for a bit, yes, one of the first things it asked me for, unprompted, were things to set it up to buy stuff. i declined but it still consistently wants to spend money; research a trip? as soon as it has any results it prompts to start booking stuff. etc.
  • rhet0rica 25d ago
    Of course it does! Really, though, what it really wants to do is make restaurant reservations. The primary concern of AI researchers has always been, and will always be, making restaurant reservations. Parsing natural language and solving climate change are downstream of making restaurant reservations. Universal Paperclips should have been about making restaurant reservations.
    • RugnirViking 25d ago
      but can you imagine the horror of just showing up at a restaurant and asking to be seated? It's surely worth it
  • julius-verdyct 24d ago
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• pampas 25d ago
  The Target marketing team famously could predict when a woman is pregnant but it was too creepy to, uh, Target them with only baby goods in dynamic marketing materials so they would mix in a few masculine things like lawn mowers into the catalog. No idea if that is what Meta is doing here but it's one explanation.