AI agent makers are promising privacy — will they deliver?
TL;DR
At this year's OpenAI DevDay, CEO Sam Altman unveiled the company's new AI agent Dots - and told the crowd that the company wants to "set a new standard for privacy in frontier AI. " OpenAI would spend the day taking veiled shots at Meta's Muse, its primary competitor, for failing to keep users' data safe. Yet Muse itself, a couple of months earlier, had launched as a supposedly safer alternative to predecessor OpenClaw - with CEO Mark Zuckerberg promising it was "built from the ground up for privacy and security.
Nauti's Take
Teams considering Dots or Muse should start with the data flows: retention periods, training use, permissions, and a verifiable deletion process. Privacy claims are insufficient evidence on their own.
Run both systems with synthetic sensitive data in an isolated environment and document exactly what leaves the workspace before connecting real business workflows.
Summary
At this year's OpenAI DevDay, CEO Sam Altman unveiled the company's new AI agent Dots - and told the crowd that the company wants to "set a new standard for privacy in frontier AI. " OpenAI would spend the day taking veiled shots at Meta's Muse, its primary competitor, for failing to keep users' data safe.
Yet Muse itself, a couple of months earlier, had launched as a supposedly safer alternative to predecessor OpenClaw - with CEO Mark Zuckerberg promising it was "built from the ground up for privacy and security.
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