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Re: Claude for Chrome

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> I understand the issue with AI gen slop, but slop content has been around since before AI - it's the incentives that are rotten. Everyone says this, and it feels like a wholly unserious way to terminate the thinking and end the conversation. Is the slop problem meaningfully worse now that we have AI? Yes: I’m coming across much more deceptively framed or fluffed up content than I used to. Is anyone proposing any (a…

It's true that AI makes the slop easier. That's actually a good thing. Slop has been out there and getting worse for the last decade but it's been at an, unfortunately, acceptable level for most of society. Gen AI shouts that the emperor has no clothes. The bullshit busywork can be generated. It's worthless. Finally. No more long winded grant proposals. Or filler emails. Or Filler presentations. Or filler videos. or…

Oh come on, are you 12? Real life doesn’t have narrative arcs like that. This is a real problem. We’re not gonna just sit around and then enjoy a cathartic resolution.

Re: Claude for Chrome

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Turned out my prediction was wrong that the big lab’s wouldn’t release a browser with cross-site access before it was safe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45004846 > Anthropic says it hopes to use this research preview as a chance to catch and address novel safety risks; however, the company has already introduced several defenses against prompt injection attacks. The company says its interventions reduced the…

They probably wanted to start collect training data for their computer use models.

Re: Claude for Chrome

#253

It's wild to see an AI company put out a press release that is basically "hey, you kids wanna see a loaded gun?" Normally all their public coms are so full of optimism and salesmanship around the potential. They are fully aware of how dangerous this is.

There was an interview from the CEO of one of those AI girlfriend apps and they say something along the lines of "Yeah if this tech continues along the path we are pushing towards thats actually pretty bad for society. Also our new model is out now, try it out!"

I don't know how these people sleep at night knowing they are actively ruining society.

Re: Claude for Chrome

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TikTokification is an odd example to pick here, given that TikTok is a platform which didn't kill its Google competitor YouTube.

What do you mean? Youtube ticktocked itself complete with shoehorning vertical videos on the desktop experience.

Kind of, but youtube is now mostly watched on TVs now where I don't imagine people are flicking through Shorts with the remote.

Re: Claude for Chrome

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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…

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.

I'm wondering if they are using vanilla claude or if they are using a fine-tuned version of claude specifically for browser use.

RL fine-tuning LLMs can have pretty amazing results. We did GRPO training of Qwen3:4B to do the task of a small action model at BrowserOS (https://www.browseros.com/) and it was much better than running vanilla Claude, GPT.

Re: Claude for Chrome

#256

It is clear that a lot of things: programming languages, websites and others will have to be adapted to be easier to use for LLMs. Now they are optimized for humans, but I think very soon they will be optimized for LLMs instead.

Programming languages and documentation probably will be. But websites have been pushing in the other direction making themselves as hard as possible to automate or scrape.

I suspect every website will nail down the process of uniquely identifying every user and banning anyone using bots to spam or scrape. Why would any website want to allow automated browsers? LLMs don't click on adverts, they don't buy things, they don't contribute any valuable content. They just steal and spam.

Re: Claude for Chrome

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I've had this conversation a couple of times now. If AI can just scan a video and provide bullet points, what's the point of the video at all? Same with UI/UX in general. Without real users, then it starts to feel meaningless. Some media is cool because you know it was really difficult to put it together or obtain the footage. I think of Tom Cruise and his stunts in Mission Impossible as an example. They add to the s…

> make this visual infinitely repeatable I'm quite sure that was how people thought about record players and films themselves. And frankly, they were correct. The recording devices did cheapen the experience (compared to the real thing). And the digitalization of the production and distribution process cheapened it even more. Being in a gallery is a very different experience than browsing the exact same paintings on…

I don't agree with this for two different reasons.

First: I don't think the analogy holds.

Recording a performance is not the same as generating a recording of a performance that never happened. To be abundantly clear, I'm not making an oversimplification generalization of the form "Tool-assisted Art is not Art actually", but pointing out that there's a lot of nuance in what we consume, how we consume it and what underlying assumptions we use to guide that consumption. There's a lot of low effort human created art, that IMO is in a similar bracket, but ultimately to me, Art that is worth spending my time consuming usually correlates with Art that has many many hours of dedicated labor poured into it. Writing a prompt in a couple minutes that generates a 20 minute podcast has a lower chance of actually connecting with me, so making that specific use-case easier is a loss for me. Using AI in ways that simplify the tedious bits of art creation for people who nevertheless have a strong opinion of what they want their artpiece to say, and are willing to spend the effort to fine tune it to make it say that, is a very valid, very welcome use-case from my perspective.

Second: Even if your premise that digitization devalued art is true, it doesn't necessarily imply it's something actually bad.

I have no intention to see the Mona Lisa in person, I'm glad I can check it out on the internet and know that I'm uninterested in it. You might think it has devalued it for me, and you'd be technically correct, but I'm happier for it. People have access to more art, and more information, that allows them to more accurately assess what they truly connect with. The rarity of the experience is now less of a factor in deciding the worth of it, which is a good thing because it draws me towards the qualities of it that matter more: the joy it could potentially provide, and the curiosity it could potentially satiate. Instead of potentially being railroaded into going to the circus because everyone seems to be raving about it, yet I have no idea what they do beyond what people say about it.

Of course there's a huge element of filtering bias on social media, because people still want their experiences to look and sound AMAZING after the fact. But at least with more information you have the potential to make a more informed decision.

Re: Claude for Chrome

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It is kind of funny how the systems are set up where there often is dense and queryable information out there already for a lot of these tasks, but these are ignored in favor of the difficult challenge of brute forcing the human consumer facing ui instead of some existing api that is designed to be machine readable already. E.g. booking flights. Travel agents use software that queries all the airlines ticket inventor…

Those APIs aren't generally available to the public, are they?

Not always, but anthropic is not exactly the public either.

Re: Claude for Chrome

#259
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> Malicious actors can hide instructions in websites, emails, and documents that trick AI into taking harmful actions without your knowledge, including: > * Accessing your accounts or files > * Sharing your private information > * Making purchases on your behalf > * Taking actions you never intended This should really be at the top of the page and not one full screen below the "Try" button.

It's insane how we're throwing out decades of security research because it's slightly annoying to have to write your own emails.

What I suspect happens is that Apple ensures that apps can not be interacted with automatically, and anything sensitive like banking moves away from websites and purely app only where the compute environment integrity is verified and bot free.

Re: Claude for Chrome

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I still don't understand what the llm does. One could do this with a few lines of curl and a list of tools to query against.

The LLM understands arbitrary web pages and finds the correct links to click. Not for one specific page but for ANY company name that you give it. It will always come back with a list of technologies used if available on the companies page. Regardless of how that page is structured. That level of generic understanding is simply not solveable with just some regex and curls.

Sure it is. You can use recursive methods to go through all links in a webpage and identify your terms within. wget or curl would probably work with a few piped commands for this. I'd have to go through the man pages again to come up with a working example but people have done just this for a long time now.

One might ask how you verify your LLM works as intended without a method like this already built.

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