I do not foresee a situation in which I would ever install an app like this on my Mac. Would you?
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Sadly, no.
This would be great if offered by Apple, or in partnership with Apple, where privacy would be prioritized. Instead, OpenAI has earned the right for us to expect it to be exploited. Another consequence of Apple being behind on AI.
BTW, you have to hand it to the dev team for baking up another great, ready-to-sell concept following their success with Workflow/Shortcuts.
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NFW.
As I noted on a the previous thread about this topic, I signed up for email list for Sky and other than the welcome email, I have heard nothing from them. So I wonder if they acutally have a product or this sale was because …
- They realized that they didn’t have product, just a demo, so they cashed out.
- They realized they didn’t have enough money to finish it so they sold to someone who would finance them.
- Or OpenAI is trying to figure out how to actually make money and is buying companies in hopes one becomes a hit.
Or perhaps all of the above.
I think they hit a wall and realized they needed to cash out. I think if this stuff was doable, then someone would have done it by now. Building AI assistants is hard.
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No, since AI companies are notorious for stealing data.
No. I want my AI where I can see what it does. Those agents look like they could get very active. I will only install such software from vendors with a trust inspiring track record.
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It’d depend on the sandboxing approach. I probably would’ve tried Sky had it released when the company was independent.
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No, I will not.
There are a few companies pusing “AI Browsers” that allegedly do the surfing for you. This browser design is extremely vulnerable to prompt injections, because it’s super easy to hide prompt text in any web page or script.
Since web pages are all just text and the LLMs can’t tell the difference beween commands and data, it is a big unpatchable security hole.
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One might doubt whether they are even browsers or just another sneaky way of trying to obtain data that the author/creator does not want them to get…
(The author of that tweet is Jamie Zawinski, one of the developers of the OG Netscape browser)
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Why yes, of course!
I can’t install it right now, because I’m busy replying to an email from the wife of a Nigerian general who wants to give me $100,000 to help him get his funds out of the country, but as soon as I’ve given her my bank details, I’ll be downloading it.
I mean, ceding control over my computer to a company that steals data in return for inaccurate results and outright fabrication – what could possibly go wrong?
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Same here, I signed up and never heard anything either and I was SO looking forward to trying out their browser. I had heard that it was acquired, but I didn’t hear who until now.
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I won’t install Atlas on my Mac either.
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Prompt injection is an unsolved, and probably unsolvable, problem so it would take a lot of convincing for me to ever let an agent that processes input from untrusted sources to have control over my computer.
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Wow, that is quite the read! This just reinforces my resolve to move away from OpenAI’s products. Thank you for sharing the article.
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