I don't know anything about this company and what it may or may not have done, but to be clear, the link just says that when you star their github repo, they add your email address to their marketing list.
I think that sucks, but it's certainly not what I thought of when I read your one-liner (which implies that they harvest and abuse your actual recorded data).
zuzululu 24 minutes ago [-]
I am not surprised. YC hasn't been the same since Gary Tan. I don't want to be associated with it or launch anything through it.
lbrito 2 minutes ago [-]
I'm less surprised that this kind of thing is YC-backed and not a bad joke, and more surprised some people seriously think it is a good idea!
subhajeet2107 1 hours ago [-]
How are you planing to segregate between professional use and personal use, I dont want any agent or any llm to know all the time what i have been doing on my system, it would be privacy nightmare and most of the time the screencapture is not meaningful. People may use their work laptop or devices to checkout reddit or hackernews occasionally.
louis030195 1 hours ago [-]
You can define websites or apps to filter out. You can also define a recording schedule, for example stop recording on weekend
jambalaya8 12 minutes ago [-]
This sounds so ripe for abuse and so terrifying if it were that I don't even want to experiment with it. Sorry.
jboss10 50 minutes ago [-]
How does it run the LLMs? Or does it call a API to llama.cpp/ollama/etc. ?
During normal usage, how often does it try to parse info from the screen capture? Once a minute?
louis030195 46 minutes ago [-]
You can decide which AI provider you use, either local through Ollama for example, using your own cloud API key, or using Screenpipe cloud. We also support confidential inference through tinfoil.sh
Screenpipe captures accessibility tree and screenshot when you perform a meaningful action. It doesn't use AI at recording time (except PII removal and OCR infrequently). So it can be every few hundred milliseconds to few minutes or more (if screen idle or sleeping)
We usually benchmark CPU usage on $200 Windows/MacOS laptop
fillskills 46 minutes ago [-]
Been a user of Screenpipe to build some "Ai-buddies" for me since last year. Core of that is giving AI a look at what is happening in time space. Without Screenpipe this was rather hard to do at the performance screenpipe gives.
louis030195 40 minutes ago [-]
That's interesting, thanks! Indeed we did a lot of work to optimize performance and reliability.
I'm curious what does your AI buddies do more specifically and how do you use them?
simlevesque 40 minutes ago [-]
Warning: this link automatically downloads a .dmg file without asking.
I think that sucks, but it's certainly not what I thought of when I read your one-liner (which implies that they harvest and abuse your actual recorded data).
During normal usage, how often does it try to parse info from the screen capture? Once a minute?
Screenpipe captures accessibility tree and screenshot when you perform a meaningful action. It doesn't use AI at recording time (except PII removal and OCR infrequently). So it can be every few hundred milliseconds to few minutes or more (if screen idle or sleeping)
We usually benchmark CPU usage on $200 Windows/MacOS laptop
I'm curious what does your AI buddies do more specifically and how do you use them?
https://screenpipe.com /how-to-install
if this doesn't run fully local its a no go for enterprise let alone ordinary users