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Why Normal People Aren’t Using AI Agents (www.wired.com)
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[–] 4 points 2 months ago (5 children)

I just requested my Google Takeout to download all my data and see how bad it is.

The Google account is like 1 year old. I've made 2 Google Play purchases. I only use Youtube maybe 2-3x per week for a minute or two each because of news articles that link there. I did use Google to search but have recently been trying to migrate to DDG. I have 150MB of shit in my Gdrive and 250MB of shit in my Gmail.

I don't use Google Music. I don't use Google Home, Docs, Calendar, Chrome, Home, Shopping, Chat, Wallet... none of the rest of it.

Look at this. It's over 127gb in 41 zip files anywhere between 4mb and 10gb each.

What the fuck is that?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (4 children)

    What's in there??

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    I have no idea. I'm stuck using a 50Mbps connection for the next 10 days or so and no way in hell I'm spending days dealing with downloading this shit just to extract them and see 500 million files to look through.

    But... that's 14 months of this account existing. I don't even use much Google shit. All these tech companies flipped straight to "spy on everything about everyone all the time" mode. And we get articles asking why normal people don't want to use AI agents. Fucked if I'm telling these stalked even more about me.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Ironically that's a perfect use case for a local, open-sourced, non-corporate, offline, firewalled and possibly air-gapped agent; to more easily explore, document and understand what's in those 500 million files.

    However, I would agree unless you've really got to know what's in there the setup alone makes it almost certainly not worth it.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    You mean LLM, not agent?

    Or are you using agent to mean "instance of specific LLM model hosted on X"? Your description is also a bit weird offline + firewall (firewall against what? Local hosting environment?)

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    An "agent" meaning an "instance of some specific LLM model with a fancy wrapper, tool use, and instruction set that recursively calls itself and/or other agents in order to accomplish a given task". Absolutely don't trust anything hosted on X!

    offline + firewall

    Mostly just trying to convey a sense of caution/paranoia with extra layers of daemon bindings. Probably should've added "sandboxed" in there too.

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