Illia Polosukhin

I mean, even now, news come out, you're asking about news in your AI chat.

You're making a decision what to buy, you're asking AI what to buy, etc.

And so

Even simple things like, I don't know if people tried, but you can say like, hey, sadly convince me of something, like prompt that to the AI and then have a different conversation.

And we'll be working in that thing to convince you of that opinion into the chat.

Like, I actually, I should write a blog on that.

But my point is like that could be in the system prompt right now.

We don't know.

Like you have literally no idea.

Like, I mean, there's ways to extract system prompt in some of the systems, but like generally, like we have no idea if somebody is like literally saying, hey, you should be thinking more about, you know, voting for this or that candidate or whatever.

whatever this can be, or like, you know, upgrade your subscription, like as simple as that.

In the limit, you can think of this as effectively 1984, right?

You have a big brother that always at all times there and effectively telling you what to think and what to do and what not to do because you effectively see the world through this lens.

And I think like just from a product and a vision perspective,

AI is how we're going to interface with computing.

Like all the computing, all the internet, everything will be interfaced with AI.

And so we want this AI to be on our side, not to be on somebody else's side.

And so that's kind of this vision of user-owned AI, which is like, we want it to be yours, not theirs.

Now, how do we actually do that, right?

Because