I love Pi, but it does hallucinate like crazy. It's really good for getting validation around any emotional topic. I think of it as "assisted journalling". I just wish it had better storage of past conversations. It's hard-to-impossible to go back and find anything. The other two are new to me and I'm excited to check them out!
Emma, I appreciate your input. That hallucination has bugged me too. I hope the team will address that. And I agree that Pi's past conversations aren't organized or presented well, as they are on other platforms like Claude, ChatGPT, etc. I'll be interested in your impressions of the other platforms, or other resources you find useful for "assisted journaling," a term that's new to me and I like.
This is the prompt I used in ChatGPT before I started using Pi for basically the same thing: "For this conversation I would like you to act like a trained therapist. Your specialty is Rogerian therapy. Your task is to reflect back to me what you believe I am thinking and feeling without giving specific advice." - This is based on Carls Rogers type therapy, it is quite useful to just advance your thought process.
Woebot looks like it is only for mobile? I'm a desktop-only kind of person so...that's a no go. I looked at Personal.ai, but its use case seems confusing to me, as you mentioned. Responding to other people's questions is not really a pain point for me.
Hey Jeremy. I’d like to point out a frustration I think many share but even more people miss to their detriment. I’ll begin by echoing the reader who commented about PI’s privacy policy and whether you had read it after suggesting we should. This is not a small point by any means. One need only consider the history of the “consumer as the product” which hasn’t worked out so well for us consumers. To your response, yes AI from a product perspective is evolving, but the suggestion that the same can be said for PI’s privacy policy or that said privacy policy is open to interpretation is at best naive. “Consumer as the product” is a straight up cut n paste from the prior era of social products that I think it’s obvious to expect will continue unabated. One need only look at Pi’s founding team each of whom benefited more than handsomely from the sale of our data over the past 10-15 years. Recall, selling our data didn’t just work out for them, it worked out explosively and it would be naive to think the same exact thing isn’t happening all over again with AI products. Also, you opened your write up on PI by saying it’s a “free personal bot that gets to know you over time.” This unfortunately isn’t true. PI’s AI has zero ability to remember past conversations. Please note that I am not suggesting anything nefarious here on your behalf. It was a miss, I’m sure. However, readers rely on your curations and your POV and so accuracy is critical. I never would have commented if I hadn’t seen the other readers comment regarding whether you’d reviewed Pi’s privacy policy, but when coupled with my comment above re Pi’s ability to recall past conversations I felt I had to. Also, I don’t have a specific bone to pick with PI. What they’re doing with their privacy policy is generally standard, but no — it’s highly highly doubtful that any of these companies are going to evolve anything about their products on our behalf’s that stands in the way of their profit motive. And to the point of PI’s AI “getting to know you” which it does not, I was extremely surprised and disappointed bc I’d (obviously wrongly) assumed that was the whole point.
Did you look into the privacy policy of Pi? I have adopted what I read somewhere: if a product is free that’s because you are the product. I prefer not to be a product.
Hi Andrew, thanks for your input. Like you I'm interested in privacy questions around PI and other AI tools, though it will take time to see how these policies play out. For now, here's Pi's policy: https://heypi.com/policy though a policy like this one leaves room for interpretation and we'll see how this and other policies is actually implemented and if/how data is protected, used, shared, etc. over time. I'd build on the point you raise to note that even paid products may be selling your data, so to me, this is a potential area of concern across the digital spectrum, whether or not products are paid or free.
I love Pi, but it does hallucinate like crazy. It's really good for getting validation around any emotional topic. I think of it as "assisted journalling". I just wish it had better storage of past conversations. It's hard-to-impossible to go back and find anything. The other two are new to me and I'm excited to check them out!
Emma, I appreciate your input. That hallucination has bugged me too. I hope the team will address that. And I agree that Pi's past conversations aren't organized or presented well, as they are on other platforms like Claude, ChatGPT, etc. I'll be interested in your impressions of the other platforms, or other resources you find useful for "assisted journaling," a term that's new to me and I like.
This is the prompt I used in ChatGPT before I started using Pi for basically the same thing: "For this conversation I would like you to act like a trained therapist. Your specialty is Rogerian therapy. Your task is to reflect back to me what you believe I am thinking and feeling without giving specific advice." - This is based on Carls Rogers type therapy, it is quite useful to just advance your thought process.
Woebot looks like it is only for mobile? I'm a desktop-only kind of person so...that's a no go. I looked at Personal.ai, but its use case seems confusing to me, as you mentioned. Responding to other people's questions is not really a pain point for me.
Thanks for recommending Pi, I'm having fun with it right now, actually quite good for brain dumping and organization, idk why
Hey Jeremy. I’d like to point out a frustration I think many share but even more people miss to their detriment. I’ll begin by echoing the reader who commented about PI’s privacy policy and whether you had read it after suggesting we should. This is not a small point by any means. One need only consider the history of the “consumer as the product” which hasn’t worked out so well for us consumers. To your response, yes AI from a product perspective is evolving, but the suggestion that the same can be said for PI’s privacy policy or that said privacy policy is open to interpretation is at best naive. “Consumer as the product” is a straight up cut n paste from the prior era of social products that I think it’s obvious to expect will continue unabated. One need only look at Pi’s founding team each of whom benefited more than handsomely from the sale of our data over the past 10-15 years. Recall, selling our data didn’t just work out for them, it worked out explosively and it would be naive to think the same exact thing isn’t happening all over again with AI products. Also, you opened your write up on PI by saying it’s a “free personal bot that gets to know you over time.” This unfortunately isn’t true. PI’s AI has zero ability to remember past conversations. Please note that I am not suggesting anything nefarious here on your behalf. It was a miss, I’m sure. However, readers rely on your curations and your POV and so accuracy is critical. I never would have commented if I hadn’t seen the other readers comment regarding whether you’d reviewed Pi’s privacy policy, but when coupled with my comment above re Pi’s ability to recall past conversations I felt I had to. Also, I don’t have a specific bone to pick with PI. What they’re doing with their privacy policy is generally standard, but no — it’s highly highly doubtful that any of these companies are going to evolve anything about their products on our behalf’s that stands in the way of their profit motive. And to the point of PI’s AI “getting to know you” which it does not, I was extremely surprised and disappointed bc I’d (obviously wrongly) assumed that was the whole point.
Did you look into the privacy policy of Pi? I have adopted what I read somewhere: if a product is free that’s because you are the product. I prefer not to be a product.
Hi Andrew, thanks for your input. Like you I'm interested in privacy questions around PI and other AI tools, though it will take time to see how these policies play out. For now, here's Pi's policy: https://heypi.com/policy though a policy like this one leaves room for interpretation and we'll see how this and other policies is actually implemented and if/how data is protected, used, shared, etc. over time. I'd build on the point you raise to note that even paid products may be selling your data, so to me, this is a potential area of concern across the digital spectrum, whether or not products are paid or free.
your tips are useful
You have such a great way of summer using changes in this industry. Brilliant, thank you.