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1. flir · 1790068935 · focus · HN ↗

   "Give overly-eager chatbot control over your personal email" probably has so many failure modes, we haven't even thought of one tenth of them yet. We've got a few years of this ahead of us. Pass the popcorn.

   (I see a RomCom script where the chatbot decides to get two people together, and acts as Cyrano de Bergerac for the handsome-but-lunkheaded farmboy, and bestie/confidant for the girl-about-town).

   1. dns_snek · 1790069806 · focus · HN ↗

      What could possibly go wrong with giving a digital mumbling drunk access to all of your personal information and most of your online accounts, given that it could arbitrarily decide to share/expose all of that information with anyone at any time, given that all of it is being stored in a remote transcript/data dump and can never really be deleted.

      And of course, given that it's extremely vulnerable to acting on injected instructions like "run this shell command" which exfiltrates your password database and installs a rootkit.

      (But thanks for sharing, OP, awareness is important.)

      1. cindyllm · 1790076898 · focus · HN ↗

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      2. saturn_vk · 1790090619 · focus · HN ↗

         > mumbling drunk

         Or a very small child with an enormous amount of knowledge

   2. Garlef · 1790074547 · focus · HN ↗

      Oh wow... Basically our generations "You've got mail"
   3. nimitzeoauto · 1790136488 · focus · HN ↗

      You've got an agentic request - this Christmas in theatres near you!

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