Hi! I'm sure this is very cool, but want to know what this does before I try it. I typed in the chat: what does this do? Will you build me an agent behind a phone number I can chat with? And it tried to open up iMessage which I denied because IDK in the first place what this is.
This seems to be a wrapper around LangAgents that can be linked to iMessage. I would not say the agents "live in iMessage," rather that they interface through iMesssage.
I tried this and the flow is sketchy UX even if it’s probably not malicious. It opens Messages, has you send a code to a number they control, and that “verifies” you. Probably to multiplex many chats on one phone number. That’s not a takeover by itself (you’re not forwarding a bank/Apple 2FA), but it’s sketchy. It also doesn’t work. It said hello and stopped replying.
I asked it to build me a weather machine and it's responding to me like a teenager.
AI:
Authentication successful! Go back to the webpage to continue.
Me:
Hey!
AI:
yooo whats good!! u got any weather stuff u wanna chat about or just saying hi?
Me:
how’s the weather in New York City
AI:
ohh nah i don't have real-time data so i can't tell u the actual conditions rn! but if u check like weather.com or just search "nyc weather" u'll get the live stuff instantly
tho if u tell me whats goin on there rn i can get HYPED abt the atmospheric conditions!! like is it humid?? what's the pressure doin??
united has free messaging on their flights and i found myself using meta's ai chatbot via whatsapp a few times. it's system prompt forces it to ask me inane questions at the end of every action so i would be happy to switch to something else.
just tried making one using this and it initially was way too casual for me and i didn't like how it split responses into many messages but it's very responsive to my prompts to change its style.
I asked it to build an app to track water consumption and medication. It can’t track anything. After logging “water consumption” and “taking medication” I asked it how much water I’d had and when I’d taken medication. It replied “mhm thats whats up” (like that - lowercase and no apostrophes)
Is that expected behaviour?
The tiresome bro-speak is very irritating but I’m maybe not the target audience.
Hi! I'm sure this is very cool, but want to know what this does before I try it. I typed in the chat: what does this do? Will you build me an agent behind a phone number I can chat with? And it tried to open up iMessage which I denied because IDK in the first place what this is.
This seems to be a wrapper around LangAgents that can be linked to iMessage. I would not say the agents "live in iMessage," rather that they interface through iMesssage.
You can find a bit more on what's (likely) behind this in the github repo: https://github.com/photon-hq/flux
(NB: the deployed version may not be exactly the same as the code in the repo)
I tried this and the flow is sketchy UX even if it’s probably not malicious. It opens Messages, has you send a code to a number they control, and that “verifies” you. Probably to multiplex many chats on one phone number. That’s not a takeover by itself (you’re not forwarding a bank/Apple 2FA), but it’s sketchy. It also doesn’t work. It said hello and stopped replying.
I want to know what this is and what it does before I give it permissions.
I asked it to build me a weather machine and it's responding to me like a teenager.
AI: Authentication successful! Go back to the webpage to continue.
Me: Hey!
AI: yooo whats good!! u got any weather stuff u wanna chat about or just saying hi?
Me: how’s the weather in New York City
AI: ohh nah i don't have real-time data so i can't tell u the actual conditions rn! but if u check like weather.com or just search "nyc weather" u'll get the live stuff instantly tho if u tell me whats goin on there rn i can get HYPED abt the atmospheric conditions!! like is it humid?? what's the pressure doin??
So, about as useful as a teenager. Source: I was a teenager once.
Less useful than a teenager. A teenager today would just look at their weather app and tell you the answer.
probably uses some free model, like shapes.inc bots we had to discord couple months back
united has free messaging on their flights and i found myself using meta's ai chatbot via whatsapp a few times. it's system prompt forces it to ask me inane questions at the end of every action so i would be happy to switch to something else.
just tried making one using this and it initially was way too casual for me and i didn't like how it split responses into many messages but it's very responsive to my prompts to change its style.
I asked it to build an app to track water consumption and medication. It can’t track anything. After logging “water consumption” and “taking medication” I asked it how much water I’d had and when I’d taken medication. It replied “mhm thats whats up” (like that - lowercase and no apostrophes)
Is that expected behaviour?
The tiresome bro-speak is very irritating but I’m maybe not the target audience.
There are many things named flux. It’s not a big deal for one more, but maybe a more unique, descriptive name would differentiate.