The app model can't do speculative assistance.

· Bits and Bobs 6/24/24

Speculative assistance is necessary to do anything exploratory, where you don't know what the answer of the service will be before you do it.

But in the same-origin paradigm, once you reach out to the 3P service, that service could do whatever they want, on a technical level, with that data.

That data could leak out in unexpected ways.

For example, "What would a family trip to Tokyo in the summer look like?" could turn into getting unexpected emails from Delta encouraging you to try their co-marketing deal at sushi restaurants.

This means the app model is an awkward fit for an AI-native speculative assistance.

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