OpenAI is building its local app to subvert the permission system of the web
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> Local ai apps are how you get around the legacy permission system of the internet and set AI automation free.
This is an overly dramatic way of saying that OpenAI wants their local app to be a first class user agent rather than just another sandboxed website. This isn't really an end run around the web's permission system, it's very much an explicit part of the security model. Users trust a small handful of programs to be their agent interacting with bunch of content that they don't necessarily trust. If OpenAI wants to make an entry to try to become one of those trusted user agents, more power to them! We can always use more competition in the user agent space.
If there was genuine user agent competition/differentiation I think it would take an EU antitrust action to force apple to open a "siri replacement" API up.
And if I'm apple I'd be finding a way to make apple-only silicon "part of" siri, at least in the eyes of a future EU court.
Whitespace between single, short sentence.
Sounds in my head like they pause 5-10 seconds between each sentence.
What is going on?
The message is that by running an arbitrary app on a machine, LLMs can act as an agent on your behalf, as though it were actually you. So it could, for example, make purchases, login to _anything_, and generally do whatever across any local programs and / or miscellaneous web browsers. Compare this to a web browser were there are huge security restrictions on what components can talk to what (e.g. forbidding cross-origin, http <=> https requests, and so forth).
Overall it's a bit of a nothing burger, and the level of effort required to identify it as such was a tad disappointing.
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About the time that real costs are incurred, a class-action lawsuit would presumably follow.