Announcement post: https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-atlas/
ChatGPT Atlas
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#12So openAI's answer to Perplexity's Comet. I'm afraid this will be the future, as these AI-browsers do truly bring value. But they open up the gate for a single Big Tech Winner that truly knows everything about you, and can even control everything on your behalf. I really hope open-source Browsers like Firefox follow up soon with better alternatives, like on-device LLMs to counteract the "all in the cloud" LLM approac…
I’m not sure even if these browser automation brings much value other than financial analysts, at least for the moment
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#13all the AI chrome extensions are now unnecessary
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#14How does this page not immediately address what I assume is everyone's first question? Is this browser built on Chromium, or is it a completely fresh creation? I have to assume that because they AREN'T highlighting it that it IS built on Chromium.
Since it’s Mac only, it could be WebKit. Definitely not a new browser engine.
I wish we would see more WebKit browsers just for more variety. I personally use Safari as my primary browser on my Mac.
Ora is interesting as it's an Arc-like spin using WebKit, but still early days for it.
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#15If you think this is useful... remember technology like this would make totalitarian leaders foam at the mouth.
If you thought that ads are creepy, Atlas is a root level keylogger service. Why would you want an AI company scraping and recording all of your browser interactions.
Yes Google already does this via Chrome. It's one thing to build a predictive model on your demographic, spending, location and income information in order to target then sell you advertisements...
Quite another thing to build a model of your cognition by recording you from a company that is trying to build general intelligence - this is a training data and cognition exfiltration play.
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#16interesting that their landing page doesn't use the word "browser"
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#17How does this page not immediately address what I assume is everyone's first question? Is this browser built on Chromium, or is it a completely fresh creation? I have to assume that because they AREN'T highlighting it that it IS built on Chromium.
Why wouldn't it be Chromium/V8-based? New browser engine is multiple developer-years of effort.
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#18Another cohort of startups blown out of the water. "But where's the moat, but where's the moat", cries the armchair engineer with a PhD in React. Meanwhile OpenAI goes brr ...
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#19Another cohort of startups blown out of the water. "But where's the moat, but where's the moat", cries the armchair engineer with a PhD in React. Meanwhile OpenAI goes brr ...
You're actually making the opposite point that you intended: the existing AI-browsers made by The Browser Company/Perplexity had their first mover advantage, but they have little inherent lock-in and are now less likely to retain users since a more notable competitor now exists.
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#20I haven't used LLM chrome plugins because I couldn't trust that they weren't collecting more information about my browsing than I'd like. The same concern exists for this, though now I'm just confident it's a giant software company with access to my data rather than some shady plugin developer. I'm faced with asking myself if that's actually better...