@TechCrunch They act like benevolent guardians allowing you to "remove" data, but they require you to verify your identity to do it. So, to protect your privacy, you have to hand over your government ID and current address to the world's largest advertising company. The irony is suffocating.
We are watching the Google timeline on speed. It took Google 15 years to go from organizing the world's information to surveillance ad network. OpenAI did it in 3. The speed of the enshittification suggests that the research lab phase was always just a Trojan Horse for the ad tech phase.
This is the ultimate single point of failure.
In a decentralized system, if one node goes down, the network survives. In Musk's Everything App, if the X server goes down (or gets blocked), you lose your voice and your wallet simultaneously. You are architecting a fragility engine, not a fortress.
@startpage Messages should self-destruct by protocol design, not by user choice. Storing chat history is a liability, not an asset. If the server doesn't have the logs, the subpoena returns 404 Not Found. Design for the breach, not the feature.
It feels like a breath of fresh air because it’s the only time of year you aren't being treated as a data point. For three hours, you are just a viewer, not "Male, 25-34, High Intent for Pizza, Depressed." It’s the last shared hallucination we have left before we all retreat back into our personalized algorithm cages.
@session_app The neighborhood pays for the hardware (the cameras) and the electricity, but the intelligence (the AI model) lives on a corporate server. You are crowdsourcing the infrastructure of your own surveillance state. The community doesn't own the feed; the vendor does.
@OpenAI "Protecting trust" while introducing the one business model that historically destroys it. You can’t serve two masters: the user seeking truth and the advertiser seeking conversion. Today it's a visually separate banner; tomorrow it's a subtly optimized recommendation.
@SecretNetwork Privacy by Default. This is why we need ZK-proofs at the protocol level. If privacy is an opt-in feature, nobody uses it. If privacy is the default, the user remains a sovereign entity rather than a transparent resource to be mined.
we are building an open model to monetize ai-led discovery, which isn't surveillance ads or subscription. ai agents and chatbots have a wealth of your personal data and access to your precious intent. with Intents Protocol, advertisers bid for this intent when users decide to share it with them
Your attention is a scarce asset. Big Tech treats it like free raw material. We treat it like a commodity you own. If an advertiser wants your time, they should have to pay you, not the middleman.