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Re: ChatGPT Atlas

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If 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 inform…

This seems like a very good way for them to get more training data that they're hungry for after ingesting everything from the web.

Re: ChatGPT Atlas

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This Apple only nonsense is driving me nuts.

I pay OpenAI $200 a month, and use Codex all the time, but just installed the crappy ChatGPT app for Android, and just use it from the mobile web browser, because it's over a month behind on super common features that launched on iPhone on day one.

Same thing with Sora 2 being Apple only. What craziness is that? Why are developers leaning so hard into supporting closed source ecosystems and leaving open source ecosystems behind?

Re: ChatGPT Atlas

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post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What value? I haven't used them myself, but from reviews I've seen on Youtube they appear to be flaky and not all that useful. It reminds me of when voice assistants like Siri came out, and it turned out that the only thing they were good for was setting timers, controlling music playback, and gimmicky stuff like that.

Try it yourself and ignore the hype. For certain things it can be really useful, just keep in mind that it's early days. I recently used Comet to find out of print movies that were never released on DVD/Bluray, then find them on ebay, then find the best value, then provide me with a list to order. It felt like magic watching it work, and saved me many hours of either doing it myself or scripting it. I did have to rep…

Surely this is something you can do with simple searches...? Unless you're reaching the level of trying to buy dozens or hundreds of movies.

https://xkcd.com/1205/

Re: ChatGPT Atlas

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post #71

Anyone feel like OpenAI is acting like Google lately? They announce a lot of products/features and then kill them when they realize people don't use them[0]. They also announce products way before they're ready for launch, just like google[1]. - GPT Plugins? (HN went crazy over this, they called it the "app store moment"...) - GPTs?! - Schedules? - Operator? - The original "codex" model? [0]: I know, the diff is that…

yeah the custom GPT announcement was literally a carbon copy of steve jobs announcing the app store down to the mannerisms and tics. You could tell they were doing it to give VC and private equity the pavlov bell "ring ring! this company is apple!" and remember the sora announcement just a couple weeks ago? oh you guys are tiktok and instagram reels now too? cool... everything that openAI does is laser focused on val…

> yeah the custom GPT announcement was literally a carbon copy of steve jobs announcing the app store down to the mannerisms and tics.

And then they nabbed Jony Ive of all people for their hardware project, with Altman stating that Steve Jobs would be "damn proud" of what they're working on. It's about as subtle as a brick to the face.

Re: ChatGPT Atlas

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post #15

If 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 inform…

Good thing is: they have no moat – there will be open source alternatives, even if a little later and a little less performant.
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