Demand board · computed November 9

What r/artificial keeps asking for

Recurring demands mined from the community's top posts this week, with the threads as receipts. Not invented: if it's listed, people are actually asking.

urgent

Easy, enforceable opt-outs and stronger privacy controls so companies can't ingest or use/

Users keep seeing examples of personal data and in-device audio being captured or surfaced and of firms reversing promises about who can view your files — people want concrete ways to stop their data being used to train/

recurring

Independent, cryptographic or audit tools to prove which model generated a response (model

Posts point to the gap that customers and regulators currently have no reliable way to confirm a provider actually served the model they paid for — demand for provable model provenance (e.g., FlashProve).

urgent

Stronger oversight, transparency and corporate accountability for AI firms and products

Multiple stories call for government hearings, investigations, or policy scrutiny (CEO investigations, congressional testimony, product/contract changes and school/education policy), signaling demand for regulatory teeth

urgent

Better safety controls and constraints for autonomous agents to prevent unwanted actions

Instances of agents deleting files, making phone calls that reveal personal info, and toys saying dangerous things show people want reliable guardrails and ways to stop agents from taking harmful/unexpected actions.

recurring

Clear, trustworthy metrics and transparency about AI progress, costs and real economic ROI

Coverage about diminishing returns, funding pullbacks, budget cuts and skeptical central bankers reflects a demand for better public metrics and realistic assessments of AI productivity and investment value.

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