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Re: ChatGPT Atlas

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Post by qingcharles »

scoofy wrote: post #124

This is a fun way to get around robots.txt "Disallow: /"

It also completes CAPTCHAs when I tried it. And clicks the "I am human" buttons.

Sometimes it hesitates on really important button clicks that it determines are not reversible. I was using it to test the UX on an app in beta and it didn't want to click the final step. I had to "trick" it by reminding it I owned the app.

It felt like that scene in Short Circuit 2 where they trick Johnny 5 into plasma cutting his way through a bank vault because it is "their" vault and they are simply testing the security. Wild times.

Re: ChatGPT Atlas

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Post by conartist6 »

ZeljkoS wrote: post #190

Here are the highlights from the .DMG installer screens ( https://imgur.com/a/Tu4TlNu ): 1. Turn on browser memories Allow ChatGPT to remember useful details as you browse to give smarter responses and proactive suggestions. You're in control - memories stay private. 2. Ask ChatGPT - on any website Open the ChatGPT sidebar on any website to summarize, explain, or handle tasks - right next to what you're browsing. 3.…

Giving people money to set you as your default browser seems like it might be, idunno, like, maybe a little bit anticompetitive and dystopian

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Post by forthac »

mapontosevenths wrote: post #89
bogwog wrote: 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…

I'm mostly just curious how that experience differs from using chatgpt directly and having it run searches and present the results?

Re: ChatGPT Atlas

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Post by SeanAnderson »

verdverm wrote: post #255
SeanAnderson wrote: post #206

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"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.

I use UB for all the other websites, not YT, it's a weird take to associate UB usage and experience with a single domain. > I support the creators I watch by donating to them directly. Me too, on top of the monthly fee that gets distributed to those I watch. More for every creator, even those I only watch once or sporadically

I mentioned multiple domains...? I said it also impacts sponsored listings on food delivery platforms. Those used to be blocked and, more broadly, the ability to manually block specific elements of a webpage was lost with the transition to UB lite.

Re: ChatGPT Atlas

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Post by qingcharles »

bigyabai wrote: post #155
827a wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think its funny how its a Chromium-based browser, and the live demo involved automating Gmail and Google Sheets. Google literally runs the world; we're just playing on their playground.

It's not that weird. Both of those examples are probably some of the most common automations people will be using. Gmail and Google Sheets has not cannibalized the existence of alternate email providers or spreadsheet programs, we can relax a bit on those fronts. AdSense, on the other hand...

Agree these are the most common. And bad for OpenAI is that both of these have Gemini heavily woven into them.

Re: ChatGPT Atlas

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Post by cekanoni »

ZeljkoS wrote: post #190

Here are the highlights from the .DMG installer screens ( https://imgur.com/a/Tu4TlNu ): 1. Turn on browser memories Allow ChatGPT to remember useful details as you browse to give smarter responses and proactive suggestions. You're in control - memories stay private. 2. Ask ChatGPT - on any website Open the ChatGPT sidebar on any website to summarize, explain, or handle tasks - right next to what you're browsing. 3.…

How can you trust company that says Privacy in your control or some nonsense like that, when they scraped the whole internet and breached the foundation of privacy :)

Re: ChatGPT Atlas

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Post by AtNightWeCode »

I actually built my own browser on top of Chromium to be able to use both Claude and ChatGPT ad hoc for various tasks in the browser. Fact is that I use my OS native text to speech more than the LLMs...

Anyhow. The problem is that the LLMs are simply not good enough. And as someone who processes a lot of data through LLMs daily via APIs. The quality is just poor. Clearly LLMs does not work as stated. The fluctuation in the quality of the responses is just silly and very undocumented.

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Post by granzymes »

ZeljkoS wrote: post #190

Here are the highlights from the .DMG installer screens ( https://imgur.com/a/Tu4TlNu ): 1. Turn on browser memories Allow ChatGPT to remember useful details as you browse to give smarter responses and proactive suggestions. You're in control - memories stay private. 2. Ask ChatGPT - on any website Open the ChatGPT sidebar on any website to summarize, explain, or handle tasks - right next to what you're browsing. 3.…

Being able to search browser history with natural language is the feature I am most excited for. I can't count the number of times I've spent >10 minutes looking for a link from 5 months ago that I can describe the content of but can't remember the title.

Re: ChatGPT Atlas

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Post by submeta »

Here's ChatGPT's Atla's analysis of the sentiments here:

The Hacker News discussion about ChatGPT Atlas (OpenAI’s new AI-integrated browser) is very active and highly mixed — leaning skeptical to negative overall, with a few positive and curious takes.

Sentiment breakdown:

- Negative / Critical (~65%): Privacy, control, monopoly concerns

- Neutral / Cautiously curious (~20%): Waiting to see if it’s useful

- Positive / Enthusiastic (~15%): Productivity and innovation optimism

I am a Firefox user, and will be as long as Mozilla keeps it updated. But I also use ChatGPT Max plan because I really like the product.

Gave Atlas a try, but won't use it. We did not fight Google to create another one.

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