[moritzwarhier]

But aren't you ignoring that the headline might be simply critical of the very idea of autonomous agents with access to personal accounts etc?

I haven't even read the article, but just because we can, it doesn't mean we should (give autonomous AI agents based on LLMs in the cloud access to personal credentials)?

[BeetleB]

You don't need to give OpenClaw access to personal stuff. Yes, people are letting it read email. Risky, but I understand. But lots of others are just using it to build stuff. No need to give it access to your personal information.

Say you want a bot to go through all the HN front page stories, and summarize each one as a paragraph, and message you with that once a day during lunch time.

And you don't want to write a single line of code. You just tell the AI to set it all up.

No personal information leaked.

[neodymiumphish]

Yep, I’m in this camp. My OC instance runs on an old MacBook with no access to my personal accounts, except my “family appointments” calendar and an API key I created for it for a service I self-host. I interact with a Discord bot to chat with it, and it does some things on schedules and other things when asked.

It’s a great tool if you can think of things you regularly want someone/thing else to do for you.

[warunsl]

I have a somewhat similar use case. I do want it to go through my insta feed, specifically one account that breaks down statistical models in their reels, summarize the concepts and dump it to my Obsidian.