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by tamimio 120 days ago
Hahah glad I never used the claw, now that they joined openAI. But, I will never use any AI assistant because:

- privacy concerns: last thing I want is some prompt injection exposing xyz personal data. Seriously, how do people -especially technical ones- trust one thing with so much access and power!? Even from engineering perspective, it’s a single point of failure.

- security concerns: leaking credentials etc.

- codependency concerns: once you become codependent on something that you can’t control (ie not you), things can get messy, from a simple power blackout to cloud interruptions to company acquired by another, you will have a hard reality check.

- cognitive concerns: I have a theory that all these AI assistants will make people dumber in few years, when parts of their brains aren’t working or active as used to be and relying on external help, eventually they will lose that critical thinking ability, and become a “receiver” on how to navigate or do stuff, maybe even day to day tasks.