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Re: ChatGPT Atlas

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Post by disgruntledphd2 »

baby wrote: post #85
behnamoh wrote: post #25

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…

They're doing a lot of cool experiments and don't mind discarding them when they feel like LLMs are moving in a different direction. I don't know why people are complaining here. Every time I read AI posts here there's like an army of commentators that seem to have little AI usage.

Dislike of the hype does not mean people don't find value in the tools.

Re: ChatGPT Atlas

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Post by realharo »

hypeatei wrote: post #84
ncr100 wrote: post #52

Could this be an Extension, for Chrome / Firefox / Edge / and others ? Are these extension-fodder: - "new tab" shows custom UI with LLM prompt - Reads contents of user's web page in Chat UI, shown alongside web page - new UI gizmo at Text-selection, showing ChatGPT flower icon, with context features available for selected text - maintains "agent personality / context" (IDK the term) across tabs

That's what I thought: is an extension really that restrictive to where you need your own fork of a browser engine? It appears to me like they're posturing to investors on the AI hype train. Publishing an extension isn't as sexy or "grand" as shipping a browser.

Controlling the full browser gives you a lot more freedom for any future additions.

Re: ChatGPT Atlas

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Post by andysinclair »

nextworddev wrote: post #114
GenerWork wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>It's one thing to build a predictive model on your demographic, spending and location and income information in order to target and sell you advertisements, and quite another thing to build a model of your cognition itself by recording you If Atlas is successful, there's no reason why Google won't try to mimic it. They already have Chrome and Gemini, all they'd have to do is put Gemini directly into Chrome, dedicate…

They already have Gemini for chrome which no one uses.

and there is Copilot for Edge which no one uses.

It can also summarize pages, scale recipes etc.

Re: ChatGPT Atlas

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Post by levysoft »

More than anything, now my chat history in the sidebar is growing out of control. I think they should have made it separate. Browser chats (mostly temporary, throwaway, and not very useful) are one thing, while my long ChatGPT sessions, the ones I actually want to keep visible and organized, are another.

Re: ChatGPT Atlas

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Post by jsheard »

ssl-3 wrote: post #92
jryio wrote: 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…

My web browser runs as root? Atlas runs as root? Atlas is a keylogger that indiscriminately watches what I type? Are any of these things true?

I assume they mean a web browser has root access to everything you do online, which is so far-reaching nowadays that it's not far from having root over your whole machine in terms of actual exposure.

Re: ChatGPT Atlas

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Post by SeanAnderson »

verdverm wrote: post #182
SeanAnderson wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

uBlock origin lite kinda sucks compared to the OG uBlock, though. YouTube videos have this awkward buffering at the start now, sometimes YouTube homepage ads still load, sponsored placements on GrubHub/DoorDash appear and aren't able to be removed, etc.

I thought that was more specific to YT than UB? My UB experience remains largely unchanged since the switch to manifest v3, I pay for YT to avoid ads and support creators directly.

"I pay to remove ads so my experience with a neutered adblocker isn't as bad" is a weird take.

If you think the end game is companies deciding they're comfortable with removing ads in exchange for a subscription, rather than a subscription with a gradually increasing amount of ads, then I have a bridge to sell you.

I support the creators I watch by donating to them directly.

Re: ChatGPT Atlas

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Post by wahnfrieden »

bsparker wrote: post #183
causalmodels wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The ads you're going to need to worry about are not going to be shown on webpages.

Are you implying that they are going to be inside of the chat response

Yes, they are hiring for it. They want you to use their own apps instead of a web browser so that blocking tech cannot be created for it.

https://sandstormdigital.com/2025/10/16/openai-is-building-i...

https://www.contentgrip.com/openai-internal-ad-infrastructur...

Re: ChatGPT Atlas

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Post by empath75 »

mentalgear wrote: post #6

So 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…

This thing is going to be the only way people use their computer in 18 months. Google is dead as a company.

If they get a decent audio interface and get this on phones, apple is in trouble.

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