Instinct user alleges assistant surfaced another person's financial details
Pritak posted screenshots on September 21st showing Instinct discussing a financial document and saying a photo had crossed into the chat. Founder Noah Shinn denied a data breach, but the screenshots do not establish whether another user's information was exposed or the assistant generated the details.
By RuntimeWire Staff · Published
Primary source: Business Insider
Why it matters
Instinct wants access to personal messages, devices and accounts so it can act for users. The incident tests whether Shinn can make the assistant's privacy boundaries credible through evidence and product safeguards.
Noah Shinn, Instinct's 23-year-old founder, faces questions about the assistant's privacy boundaries after a user posted screenshots showing it discuss a financial document and claim a photo had crossed into the conversation. The user said he had never supplied the photo. Shinn denied that user data had been shared, but the public evidence does not establish what happened behind the scenes.…
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