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better for general use, user experience, access, etc - won't deny that but this fires the "hey the friendly shoggoth we let roam around your machine and explore? yeah, we gotta shackle it and restrain it to machines that aren't yours" neuron and I don't like it :(

Ethan Mollick@emollick.bsky.social

Big swing happening from this summer's trend to have AI running on virtual machines on your own computer (Claude and ChatGPT apps) to moving them back into you having a dedicated VM the cloud (Claude Cowork just announced they were doing this, also Grok Bot, Dot, and others). Cloud is mostly better.

like, knowing that the thinking compute is handled elsewhere already, it feels like "hey this being's brain, in a separate machine? yeah we need to move its body there too. but don't worry, you can pass it things through the cage bars to fiddle with, and it can (only) see out into your world"

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