2001zhaozhao 2 hours ago

Lock-in is easy with these agents because they NEED all of your data to be useful, and they will continue to learn internally about you.

But ultimately the AI company CAN choose to just make all the data exportable and open source their product for self-hosting. (The mainstream ones won't, of course, they want to lock you in and hide their AI prompts and algorithms.)

I think what is sorely needed is a version of Dots/Muse without lock-in risk but is still accessible to regular people unlike Openclaw.

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aditya_rs 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Yep, that's what I think and wrote on my blog. My hope is that the inference providers should provide a managed service like it. It's also in their best interest to do so, because if they don't and these provider hosted agents become the norm, demand for independent inference would drop.

	▲	2001zhaozhao 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> It's also in their best interest to do so, because if they don't and these provider hosted agents become the norm, demand for independent inference would drop. I disagree with this part. AI companies will want to try their damndest to control distribution of AI, so that they can enshittify later. Consumers conscious of this will want an alternative, of course. Might be niche similar to how Kagi is in search because big tech will always have a AI inference cost advantage + making users the product (extra $ from ads & purchase cuts) + the good old strategy of dumping.

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rheisen_ an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

https://blackbear.app, literally been building this for almost a year