> The problem is it's going to be intentionally limited in the service it gives and its ability to make decisions.

Apart from the Facebook AI customer support which would just blindly send MFA reset emails to wherever you asked.

Yeah, that's usually how contracts work.

You decide whether you have followed it or not. The other party will decide if they agree. If in dispute, you go to a judge and they decide also.

Where's the crowdfunded lawsuit I can donate to?

No, this isn't the claim.

EU wants Apple to open 'Siri AI', with access to a personal context, open to other model/AI providers.

Apple says "We can't do this in a privacy preserving way".

You can definitely question what their true motivations are, but it seems pretty plausible that there is a moral case for this system to not be opened up to other providers who may do a worse job at privacy than Apple (especially when you are Apple and you trust yourself).

I think there is a place in these sorts of ecosystems for privileged players. If you buy an iPhone you implicitly must trust Apple to some degree.

> EU wants Apple to open 'Siri AI', with access to a personal context, open to other model/AI providers.

Not sure this is the case. My understanding is what the EU wants is that users can use Siri AI or a third party AI service from, say, Anthropic or OpenAI, at the same level of capabilities, just as you can switch default browsers. It's not about the underlying LLM (that would be the huge privacy concern), it's about the product built on top. Of course how a third party AI gets its data from the device would need to be approved by the user and that third party AI provider would have to justify what it's doing with that personal data to the EU watchdogs, just as Apple would need to do.

As with many other things, AI exacerbates this problem. It’s so easy for many more of things things to happen unattended and in greater volume, and the AIs themselves can be tricked into doing these things, not helped by their patten of “prompt the user to approve 30 different inscrutable pythons and bash scripts”.

> In about 22 years of writing ruby code, I have never ran into a situation once where I would have caught a bug through types

You must be the world's greatest programmer with perfect memory. Every nil pointer exception is a bug a (good) type checker could have caught. You've never had a NameError or NoMethodError in Ruby?

There's loads of AI features out there that are powered by a model provider, yet are not branded by them. Why would this be different?

Is Siri any more or less than “just” an agentic harness such as OpenClaw? How much of what that harness does is up to the LLM or the harness itself?

In my mind the Gemini LLM defines the bounds of capability and capacity, but any actual functionality or usefulness (or lack of) comes from Apple’s Siri harness.

I do other things on my computer apart from bash.

No. Percentages allow them to hide in the law of averages. Go tell those twenty thousand people that it's banal that Meta fucked up like this.

If it helps to prevent “terror” on a flight, then yes.