In August Instinct went viral because it actually does the thing: reads your messages, books your flights, reminds you that your dad wrote two days ago and you never answered. In September Meta shipped Muse, same idea, bigger company. Then people read the terms.
- A “perpetual and irrevocable” license to your data, including for training. (Revised on Aug 26, after the screenshots spread.)
- A user disconnected her Google account. Three hours later the agent emailed her a summary of her inbox. 36 messages were still stored.
- Someone emailed himself malicious instructions. The agent followed them. Two days later: $250M Series B.
- Muse runs from a “dedicated, secure computer” in Meta’s cloud, and your queries can be used by Meta by default. The off switch exists. You have to find it. I don’t think either company is evil. I think a cloud agent has to hold your life on a server to work, and everything else follows from that. Muse vs Instinct is a debate about whose server. I’d rather there wasn’t one. So I’m building the same agent with the opposite architecture: The model, the memory and the index live on your phone . Our servers hold four things: your email, your seat number, whether your subscription is active, and the app version. That’s the entire database. It’s printed on the landing page in a card, because it fits in a card. Per app, you choose Read / Draft / Send. Start with Read. Promote it when it earns it. Internet is off by default . When a task needs it, it asks. Once. You can say no. It’s early. What’s on the page today is the architecture, the per-app permission model, and the four-column database, printed in full. 500 founding seats. First builds go out in a few days. Link in the first comment. Tear the architecture apart. That’s why I’m posting here and not on a launch site. submitted by /u/jonathancheckwise
Originally posted by u/jonathancheckwise on r/ArtificialInteligence
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