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Re: ChatGPT Atlas

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post #8

How does this page not immediately address what I assume is everyone's first question? Is this browser built on Chromium, or is it a completely fresh creation? I have to assume that because they AREN'T highlighting it that it IS built on Chromium.

Since it’s Mac only, it could be WebKit. Definitely not a new browser engine.

It says currently, so it wouldn't make sense to be WebKit.

Re: ChatGPT Atlas

#242
Something's bugging me about Atlas - it's clearly Chromium-based (you can tell from the user agent and UI), but I can't find any credit to Chromium anywhere. No license info, no acknowledgments, and when I try to access chrome:// pages they're blocked.

Maybe I'm overthinking this, but shouldn't there be some transparency about what you're building on top of? Especially with open source projects that have attribution requirements? I get that it's still early days, but this feels like a pretty basic thing to get right.

Anyone else notice this or know if this is standard practice? Just seems odd to me that they're not being upfront about the foundation they're building on.

Re: ChatGPT Atlas

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Haven't tried this yet, but I'm not confident in OpenAI's ability to make a great Mac app. ChatGPT for macOS is a buggy mess, doesn't have feature parity with the web, and hasn't been noticeably improving.

Re: ChatGPT Atlas

#244

Just to confirm my understanding— Atlas can screen-read anything visible on my screen, right? So if I log into my online banking, it could capture my transaction details and balance from that page … and potentially use or train on that data, even to target ads based on my banking information?

The website states pretty clearly that you have the ability to disable it on any sensitive pages.

But we all know the power of defaults. And by default, it will screen read & train from that data - no?

Re: ChatGPT Atlas

#245

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.…

I tried making it my default browser because of (4)

You miss the most questionable bit which is asking for keychain access. I said no to that one.

Re: ChatGPT Atlas

#246
Getting stuck 'thinking' for me. Responds about 1/2 the time. Have to constantly create new chats as existing ones freeze (can't cancel 'thinking' as you can with regular ChatGPT)

Re: ChatGPT Atlas

#247

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…

Gemini is already in Chrome. Atlas seems neat but it is not a unique product.

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Re: ChatGPT Atlas

#248
post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't care about whether it's Chromium because of browser wars, I care about whether I can block ads.

I was able to add ublock origin lite as an extension & it seems to work the same as Chrome.

uBO Lite does not support a lot of filters and there is no element picker. Also, a lot of other add-ons are unsupported due to no MV2 support.

Re: ChatGPT Atlas

#249
post #99

The more these foundational AI companies focus on product development, the more convinced I am that improvements in intelligence of the base models have slowed down to a point where AGI/"superintelligence" isn't happening, and they have to sustain their valuations in alternate ways.

Agreed 1000%. And the rate ate which OpenAI is spitting out new product tests like this I think they know very well they're hitting the limits of what the underlying model can do

Re: ChatGPT Atlas

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post #124

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

There is no law that says you have to respect robots.txt. It's just a suggestion.

For the websites that ChatGPT wants to scrape -- Reddit immediately comes to mind -- it's not an issue of law, it's an issue of "the infrastructure now exists to prevent you from doing that."
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