re: Muse AI

I hate that it makes you talk to it like a furry or something with the stupid character.

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I actually sorta appreciate it. Gives it a little of that old school internet playful quirkiness/charm, a refreshing departure from the sterile feel with the “AI is going to take your job and kill you” messaging.

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But that's the evil of it - it's a psy-op to attract your attention away from those facts.

I'm leery of granting any AI that level of access to my information; Muse AI got banned by Amazon specifically because of its behavior.

Amazon blocks Meta's Muse AI

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Muse AI got banned by Amazon specifically because of its behavior

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Well that and Amazon has its own AI shopper that stands to fall much further behind

I told Muse yesterday to remind me at 4:00 pm today to weatherize my outdoor basketball goal as we are expected to get below freezing temps soon. It just told me strong storms are expected between 4:00 and 6:00 today so to plan on weathering before that hits.

That’s a pretty practical and proactive approach. This is what I mostly use it for - I realize I need to do something, can’t do it at that moment, so tell it to remind me at a time when I expect to be able to do it. Better than keeping a running list, manually setting my own reminders, or just having to rely purely on myself to remember.

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This product is not designed to help you. It is designed to extract data, analyze your behavior, and manipulate you into making poor decisions that are favorable to Meta or its clients

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What proof do you have of this? None. It’s just your speculation.

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That’s the entire business model.

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Clearly, Meta's business model is using Muse to undercut competitors. Muse gives users hours of free compute on a lighter model. Muse's $20 paid tier gives users over $450 in monthly credit on its new Frontier model, Wonder. These tokens are 75% cheaper than the competition. Meta can do this because its massive ad business supports it. They can destroy competitors' margins. They announced further pressure on rivals by running free internal LLMs on high end Apple desktops. All of this will put significant downward pressure on competitors.

Or maybe Zuck manipulated me into writing this.

Mine is basically my personal trainer /nutritionist. It’s written me up a great weights/running schedule and helps me with my diet too. I can just send it a pic of the food and it can give me a very close guesstimate on the breakdown of it. I love muse. My Matthew mcconaughey looking guy in lsu gear is named donut.