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Claude for Chrome

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Re: Claude for Chrome

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Post by chankstein38 »

mrs6969 wrote: post #127

I don’t know if this will make anything better. Internet is now filled with ai generated text, picture or videos. Like we havent had enough already, it is becaming more and more. We make ai agents to talk to each other. Someone will make ai to generate a form, many other will use ai to fill that form. Even worst, some people will fill millions of forms in matter of second. What is left is the empty feeling of having…

I was just talking about this same thing with someone. It's like emails. If, instead of writing an email, I gave AI some talking points and then told it to generate an email around that, then the person that I sent it to has AI summarize it.... What's the point of email? Why would we still use email at all? Just either send each other shorter messages through another platform or let LLMs do the entire communication for you.

And like you said, it just feels empty when AI creates it. I wish this overhyped garbage just hadn't happened. But greed continues to prevail it seems.

Re: Claude for Chrome

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Post by 4ndrewl »

This article seems like it's very much lining up 'victim blaming' when things go wrong.

"Look, we've taken all these precautions. Please don't use this for financial, legal, medical or "sensitive" information - don't say we didn't warn you.

Re: Claude for Chrome

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Post by bpt3 »

ares623 wrote: post #138
mrs6969 wrote: post #127

I don’t know if this will make anything better. Internet is now filled with ai generated text, picture or videos. Like we havent had enough already, it is becaming more and more. We make ai agents to talk to each other. Someone will make ai to generate a form, many other will use ai to fill that form. Even worst, some people will fill millions of forms in matter of second. What is left is the empty feeling of having…

Some of us won’t. But a majority probably will. Even more important, the kids of today won’t care. Their internet will be fully slopped. And with outdoor places getting more and more rare/expensive, they’ll have no choice but to consume slop.

> And with outdoor places getting more and more rare/expensive, they’ll have no choice but to consume slop.

What does this mean? Cities and other places where real estate is expensive still have public parks, and outdoor places are not getting more expensive elsewhere.

They also have numerous other choices other than "consume whatever is on the internet" and "go outside".

I don't think anyone benefits from poorly automated content creation, but I'm not this resigned to its impact on society.

Re: Claude for Chrome

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Post by [deleted] »

bdangubic wrote: post #115
robots0only wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Claude is extremely poor at vision when compared to Gemini and ChatGPT. i think anthropic severely overfit their evals to coding/text etc. use cases. maybe naively adding browser use would work, but I am a bit skeptical.

I have a completely different experience. Pasting a screenshot into CC is my de-facto go-to that more often than not leads to CC understanding what needs to be done etc…

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Re: Claude for Chrome

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Post by jameslk »

A couple of questions for tackling browser use challenges:

1. Why not ask a model if inputs (e.g. stuff coming from the browser) contains a prompt injection attack? Maybe comparing input to the agent's planned actions and seeing if they match? (if so, that seems suspicious)

2. It seems browser use agents try to read the DOM or use images, which eats a lot of context. What's the reason not to use accessibility features instead first (other than websites that do not have good accessibility design)? Seems a screen reader and an LLM have a lot in common, needing to pull relevant information and actions on a webpage via text

Re: Claude for Chrome

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Post by jascha_eng »

aliljet wrote: post #22

Having played a LOT with browser use, playwright, and puppeteer (all via MCP integrations and pythonic test cases), it's incredibly clear how quickly Claude (in particular) loses the thread as it starts to interact with the browser. There's a TON of visual and contextual information that just vanishes as you begin to do anything particularly complex. In my experience, repeatedly forcing new context windows between sc…

I have built a custom "deep research" internally that uses puppeteer to find business information, tech stack and other information about a company for our sales team.

My experience was that giving the LLM a very limited set of tools and no screenshots worked pretty damn well. Tbf for my use case I don't need more interactivity than navigate_to_url and click_link. Each tool returning a text version of the page and the clickable options as an array.

It is very capable of answering our basic questions. Although it is powered by gpt-5 not claude now.

Re: Claude for Chrome

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Post by whatever1 »

renewiltord wrote: post #111
whatever1 wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also IP and copyright is apparently no biggie. Sorry Aaron.

Funny. According to you the only way to immortalize Aaron Schwartz is to entrench strongly the things he fought against. He died for a cause so it would be bad for the cause to win. Haha.

I don’t care about his cause. I care about the fact that I don’t see Altman or Dario being prosecuted and threatened with jail time.

Re: Claude for Chrome

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Post by kylehotchkiss »

rafram wrote: post #37

> When we added safety mitigations to autonomous mode, we reduced the attack success rate of 23.6% to 11.2% Ah, so the attacker will only get full access to my information and control over my accounts ~10% of the time. Comforting!

yeah the last 1% will just be targeted at your 401k and brokerages so 99% of the time you're fine and the last 1% you'll be drained of every penny

Re: Claude for Chrome

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Post by user453 »

robots0only wrote: post #102
MattSayar wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same. When I try to get it to do a simple loop (eg take screenshot, click next, repeat) it'll work for about five iterations (out of a hundred or so desired) then say, "All done, boss!" I'm hoping Anthropic's browser extension is able to do some of the same "tricks" that Claude Code uses to gloss over these kinds of limitations.

Claude is extremely poor at vision when compared to Gemini and ChatGPT. i think anthropic severely overfit their evals to coding/text etc. use cases. maybe naively adding browser use would work, but I am a bit skeptical.

Is it overfitting if it makes them the best at those tasks?
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