Meta's AI Needs Your Data, Not Your Consent
Superpowers, Not Superintelligence
Mark Zuckerberg argues for decentralized AI, but his own company's actions tell a different story. Meta's updated privacy policy uses your private AI conversations to personalize ads, and its smart glasses are designed to watch you constantly. The real danger isn't superintelligence—it's who controls the input layer. Bond proposes a human-first alternative: AI that asks you questions instead of surveilling you, turning your stated memories into a personal superpower.
People want superpowers, not superintelligence.
- jakejohnson
Does the CEO and co-founder of Bond actually expect folks who read this announcement, as it shifts from Facebook's ambient data collection toward promoting Bond, to give Bond access to their valuable "identity capital" and sign up because they promise to give us more control over how we share our memories with AI and "provide a safe medium" via closed source? Absolutely not. Keep your superpowers offline with a local model.
- jaredcwhite
AI;DR
I keep feeling "surprised" that people who seemingly would know better post stuff that obviously sounds like an LLM. But then I remember, you and I aren't the audience. The audience is investors. And investors seem to love LLM-voice, because…in large part…the LLMs sound as vapid and unhelpful as the VCs.
- jonplackett
I was with you all the way up until how you pivot to ad advertorial and become the exact thing you are complaining about.
If you can’t beat them, join them right?
- adamtaylor_13
Reducing your whole life down to a "memory currency" is supposed to be a "superpower"? How? It gave excellent examples of other tools that gave us superpowers: GPS, Phone, Internet. But didn't provide a single shred of evidence that this app is also a superpower.
This is an app. Not a protocol, not a platform, an app.
It's just... a way to remember stuff? You're handing all this data to a company, relying on "trust me bro, we'll be responsible" as a promise to be ethical?
This is beyond perplexing.
- JohnMakin
You can tell the people pioneering this are utterly miserable and soulless. "Let's build something to automate all the parts of your life that are actually your life."
What person that was even mildly satisfied with living their life would want this? What's next, agents that play video games and watch tv for me? What's the point?