Also Meta is actively encouraging users to grant them full permission, insisting with all their marketing might that it’s safe, which they know is a complete lie. Hard to blame the user when they’re being actively deceived like this. Other agent companies are more reserved and say things like “be careful” but Meta is the opposite.

But I guess the industry is littered with techniques for computing the same thing but vastly slower that some people find interesting. Homomorphic encryption. Zero knowledge proofs. Blockchain computing. Except in those cases there might be a legitimate reason to use it occasionally.

I agree the current design is pretty dim-witted. But I think the high-level goals are sensible. It’s certainly more than just appealing to the green crowd, because that obviously is misplaced for this audience.

This is a key reason why I actually like Grok for factual queries based on web grounding. It’s fast and reliable. Maybe it’s ignoring robots.txt? Dunno. But it works well.