Ask HN: Would you trust an AI that sees and hears everything you do?

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No.

Trust it with what? Trust it to do what?

There's one thing AI can't do, and that's actually care about anyone or anything. It's the rough equivalent a psychopath. It would push you to a psychotic break with reality with its sycophancy just a happily as it would, say, murder you if given motive means and opportunity.

Rewind was quite good

No!

I don't know about humanity, but I wouldn't use such a thing. I think it's unconscionable to impose such surveillance on unconsenting others. I would actively avoid being near anyone who did, to the best of my ability, as well.

Long answer: fuck no. Not even if it was free. Not even if it was libre software.

I don't trust god, I don't trust man, why would I trust a god made by man?

Yes, I would trust this 100%.

Absolutely not.

No. Photography is a hobby, and even with a DSLR not hooked to any networking there are some things that just shouldn't be recorded.

For instance I've never brought my camera to a funeral. Most daily life deserves the right to be forgotten.

Then there are privacy laws, etc.

The invasion of privacy is the obvious problem. But it isn't going to be functionally very useful to me either.

You're going to capture hours of walking and/or seemingly doing nothing, exchanging pleasantries/small-talk/banter. Without access to my thoughts, this is stuck in some superficial layer -- useless other than to maybe surface a reminder of something trivial that I forgot (and that's not worth it). Life happens in the brain, and you won't have access to that (yet).

Sounds like Jeff Duntmann's "jiminy", which he wrote about in PC Techniques magazine back in 1992. A matchbox-sized general purpose computer and life log, infrared connections to peripherals as needed, with a mesh network to other jiminies and the internet-at-large. Jeff didn't use the term "AI", but that would describe how it worked.

http://www.duntemann.com/End14.htm

Elon Musk's portable-Grok-thing is a long step toward the jiminy idea.

I only just got rid of my spy-phone, why would I want something with even more intrusive spying on me. I certainly would not inflict that upon others. A sure way to lose friends fast.

BigTech has burned so much good will at this point, that every new venture just feels like a timer ticking down to a bait and switch for ad revenue, subscriptions, pro features or just selling our data to the highest bidder.

And what happens to 'local' data when the 3 letter agencies want access. No thanks, sounds completely dystopian. If the data is there, someone will find a way to abuse it.

No.

Consider a world where a sizeable fraction of the population has and uses such a device, such that its presence is assumed and ultimately mandated by authoritarian law enforcement entities, surveillance capitalist firms, and so on. Can you imagine the inescapable nightmare this would become even with the norms of today? Do you really want to offer fuzzy recall of two of five senses to "legitimate legal process", rapacious marketers, or anyone else who somehow gains access to these data?

Personally I would consider it a moral imperative to refuse to use such a device and to avoid anyone who does otherwise.

So no, please don't create such a thing. Stop now.

The only '''''AI''''' I would trust with that is a Culture Mind. And maybe Earth Bet Dragon.

Definitely won't trust AI shackled to other humans.

Sometimes I feel like I live in a parallel universe to these guys who see value in things like this.

Where my life is mundane shit that most of the time I don’t even need the current generation of tech anywhere near. Walking the dog. Playing with and looking after my kids. Everyday conversations and intimacy with my wife. Barbecues with friends. Work.

And these guys lives are just working out, coding, and cooking on-trend dishes with expensive cookware, all to be relentlessly optimised.