vana

Open data infrastructure for human-grounded AI

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Announcing DataConnect: an open source desktop app that pulls your cross-platform data in one click.

Platforms lock your context in: there's no API to get your Shopify purchases, ChatGPT memories + conversations, or Spotify listen history.
Try it out: https://t.co/DeLtY3Z5fV

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@fintechfrank @annakaz That line is the whole episode in one sentence.

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@nuel_stfu Still yours. It moved with you to https://t.co/qE8KV9lHK3, same login.

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The new Vana App is now live.

It sits behind the apps you use. When one of them asks for your data, you see exactly what it wants and decide. Say yes and the data moves with your permission, and the move is recorded.

See it work in OpenPet: connect an Oura Ring, get a pet that reads your sleep back to you.

Trying it this week earns XP.

Full write up: https://t.co/KxsKKv0Zu5

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@cryptopunk7213 The bank one is the different kind of problem. Breaches are someone taking data.

Agents acting unapproved is data and authority that people handed over without a scoped, revocable grant.

The fix for that one is design, not patching.

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@puneetmehtanyc @MadisonMills22 @axios The aggregator move is the right precedent too. Get agents off the person's password and onto a grant that says what, how much, for how long, and that the person can revoke.

That has to hold for data as much as for payments.

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@Paul__Walsh The second half is the part people miss.

Consent only works if it covers the person whose data it is, not just the person who clicked share. A message about you is still your data.

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@crypto_bitlord7 That's the problem with consent as a TOS checkbox. It covers everything once, forever. Consent that means anything is per use, visible and revocable.

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@nft_dreww The useful line here is "telling an AI what it can do isn't the same as enforcing it."

The grant has to live outside the agent, scoped to what was asked, and revocable from one place.

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@pp_privatejeep It's been replaced by the new one. Your XP is over at https://t.co/qE8KV9lHK3.

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@biogenicalc @OpenPet It's @tryopenpet, and you can try it today at https://t.co/5CT4usUUhH. Connect an Oura Ring and it reads your sleep back to you.

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@Yohmicah @artieart88 @Oshinmyl Your XP in the old app come with you. Log in at https://t.co/qE8KV9lHK3 and it's there, and unclaimed XP doesn't expire.

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Don't miss Vana's very own @artieart88 and @Oshinmyl for an X-Space on the new Vana App.

Today: 19:00 Pacific

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@alex_prompter Useful. Cleanup is one half. The other is what you agree to share going forward, so you’re not doing this again next year.

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@DLPReport A notice at the gate is a hard place to say no.

Consent works better when it’s asked per use and refusing costs you nothing.

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@LingoAITech @Paul__Walsh The difference comes down to asking first.

Show people what's being requested and let them refuse, and an assistant doesn't have to work like surveillance.

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@tryopenpet Excited to have you :)

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@0xChlorin3 Nicely put :)

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@ChideraUregbu That’s the idea. The decision sits with you, and each grant is recorded so you can go back and check what you agreed to.

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@XhianRaz The difference is who decides. Nothing moves until you say yes, and you can see what was asked for and what was actually sent.

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@0x0811 It moved rather than disappeared. XP now lives at https://t.co/qE8KV9lHK3.

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@dele_dave @artieart88 @Oshinmyl The new app replaces it. Your XP moved over to https://t.co/qE8KV9lHK3.

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@shreyans___ Or just use Vana. The picture lives with the user and travels to whatever agent they point it at, so it isn’t rebuilt per app.