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Turn your best AI prompts into one-click tools in Chrome

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Re: Turn your best AI prompts into one-click tools in Chrome

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Post by sph »

eucyclos wrote: post #74
tracerbulletx wrote: post #52

I know everyone hates ads or whatever, but why would anyone make content on their own website anymore if google and the browser are doing everything in their power to keep your users from interacting with your own page. Also I don't want to hear the crap about ads being too invasive, its their content, they can do that if they want, and you can not have access to their content. They have to be able to monetize the pa…

This touches on something I've been thinking about. I'm making an ad blocker that tries to replace native ads with ads that actually add value to the viewer's life. In the public version, I'd like to offer some of the profits to the web hosts even if they haven't heard of it. Do you have any thoughts on how it would be best to go about that?

The only good ad is no ad.

To engage with your question, the only way to truly, objectively ‘add value to one’s life’ is to become intimately familiar with them, their habits and everything they do on- and offline to understand what they need. This is the entire modus operandi of the current ad industry.

Re: Turn your best AI prompts into one-click tools in Chrome

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Post by drivebyhooting »

goosejuice wrote: post #73
drivebyhooting wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even if you’re competent and useful, work is an incredible sacrifice. Perhaps only 10% of workers (the most unattached and lacking in obligations) would voluntarily work. For example for parents there are only a litany of bad choices available. If UBI is offered, why would most people suffer through their work sacrifices.

Because UBI and negative income tax doesn't provide the same lifestyle as working. It's a floor, no-one is proposing UBI at middle class salaries.

Lots of people are proposing UBI as a solution to AI displacing knowledge workers. Which of course is patently ridiculous.

Re: Turn your best AI prompts into one-click tools in Chrome

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Post by blitzar »

parasti wrote: post #18

These days announcements like this just make me want to put on my tinfoil hat - what's in it for Google, though? Why make it more convenient for people to submit webpages to you?

> what's in it for google

everyone elses product does it

Re: Turn your best AI prompts into one-click tools in Chrome

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Post by prox »

eucyclos wrote: post #74
tracerbulletx wrote: post #52

I know everyone hates ads or whatever, but why would anyone make content on their own website anymore if google and the browser are doing everything in their power to keep your users from interacting with your own page. Also I don't want to hear the crap about ads being too invasive, its their content, they can do that if they want, and you can not have access to their content. They have to be able to monetize the pa…

This touches on something I've been thinking about. I'm making an ad blocker that tries to replace native ads with ads that actually add value to the viewer's life. In the public version, I'd like to offer some of the profits to the web hosts even if they haven't heard of it. Do you have any thoughts on how it would be best to go about that?

Something I was thinking about was a simple tip jar system. You can add credits to a tipjar system, and if you like a post, site, or whatever you can gift credits.

Completely gets rid of ads that nobody likes anyway.

You could maybe automate it say “if I spend more than 30 seconds on page, pay x credits”

Re: Turn your best AI prompts into one-click tools in Chrome

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Post by partyficial »

fooker wrote: post #54
tracerbulletx wrote: post #52

I know everyone hates ads or whatever, but why would anyone make content on their own website anymore if google and the browser are doing everything in their power to keep your users from interacting with your own page. Also I don't want to hear the crap about ads being too invasive, its their content, they can do that if they want, and you can not have access to their content. They have to be able to monetize the pa…

This point naturally leads to a more general discussion. If AI can do everything and gets everyone out of jobs, who is going to consume the ‘everything’ produced by AI for someone to pay for the AI? I don’t think UBI is a real solution, it’s too hand wavy.

> If AI can do everything and gets everyone out of jobs

Not everything - Many things.

Not everyone - Many ones.

The people who cannot compete fade out, and the ones that are left reap the benefit of the machines. Just like one farmer reaps the benefit of a tractor that replaced 20 laborers.

The earth population keeps reducing until it is kinda a vacation resort for 100 billionaires + others who work for them + machines.

Then some politician who promises to be a voice for the people uses force/army to kick the billionaires out, redistribute the wealth, and then the population increases and the cycle continues.

This has been happening and will continue to happen until the heat death of the universe. (and then repeat after it gets created again).

Re: Turn your best AI prompts into one-click tools in Chrome

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Post by realPubkey »

A big limitation for skills (or agents using browsers) is that the LLM is working against raw html/DOM/pixels. The new WebMCP API solves this: apps register schema-validated tools via navigator.modelContext, so the agent has structured JSON to work with and can be way more reliable.

WebMCP is currently being incubated in W3C [1], so if it lands as a proper browser standard, this becomes a endpoint every website can expose.

I think browser agents/skills+WebMCP might actually be the killer app for local-first apps [2]. Remote APIs need hand-crafted endpoints for every possible agent action. A local DB exposed via WebMCP gives the agent generic operations (query, insert, upsert, delete) it can freely compose multiple steps of read and writes, at zero latency, offline-capable. The agent operates directly on a data model rather than orchestrating UI interactions, which is what makes complex things actually reliable.

For example the user can ask "Archive all emails I haven't opened in 30 days except from these 3 senders" and the agent then locally runs the nosql query and updates.

- [1] https://webmachinelearning.github.io/webmcp/

- [2] https://rxdb.info/webmcp.html

Re: Turn your best AI prompts into one-click tools in Chrome

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Post by duskdozer »

eucyclos wrote: post #74
tracerbulletx wrote: post #52

I know everyone hates ads or whatever, but why would anyone make content on their own website anymore if google and the browser are doing everything in their power to keep your users from interacting with your own page. Also I don't want to hear the crap about ads being too invasive, its their content, they can do that if they want, and you can not have access to their content. They have to be able to monetize the pa…

This touches on something I've been thinking about. I'm making an ad blocker that tries to replace native ads with ads that actually add value to the viewer's life. In the public version, I'd like to offer some of the profits to the web hosts even if they haven't heard of it. Do you have any thoughts on how it would be best to go about that?

What do you consider to be an ad that actually adds value to the viewer's life in contrast to other ads?
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