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Re: Brave's AI assistant now integrates with PDFs and Google Drive

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Post by Moldoteck »

swasheck wrote: post #31
Moldoteck wrote: post #19

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I guess this can be done with an extension that would work on all browsers. Like parse each page, save compressed text that supports fast decompressing (maybe even images), build tf/idf + cosine distance for verbantim searches & save in db and maybe add some ai to enhance the search. The next steps would be custom ai searches like "show me pages related to x", it'll quickly decompress the pages & apply the search for…

i’d want a feature to only do this for pages i mark as interesting (so, a bookmarked page i guess). i may not care to recall the match summary of as milan vs napoli. i have rafts of bookmarked pages, but i don’t know which of the 45 postgres-related pages contains a helpful sentence or phrase about indexing that i think i remember reading a few months ago.

it could be done with a boolean flag. Like the addon would work for all pages, but you would be able to filter the results by using some checkbox "Only favorites" or something like that

Re: Brave's AI assistant now integrates with PDFs and Google Drive

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Post by rekoil »

malauxyeux wrote: post #21
rplnt wrote: post #20

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I hated Firefox for the longest time, because it was a sub-par browser with a cult following, but since Chrome ruined any competition I went through several chrome-based browsers (never Chrome itself due to severe lack of basic functionality) and am slowly ending up with FF as my primary browser. My standards have lowered substantially, and firefox is just good enough. Always using more browsers and trying something…

Would you mind saying what you would like to do but can't with FF? I don't think I'm part of a cult, but I've used FF as my default browser for over a decade and I guess I don't know what else people want from a browser.

For me it's how user-defined search engines work. In Chromium-based browsers you can just supply a URL-template, a name, and a shorthand, and you're off to the races, it takes 10 seconds to add one.

In Firefox it used to be you needed to like create your own little mini-addon or something like that, and these days they have "smart bookmarks", but it's such a weird name and doesn't really work the same.

At any rate, I have 100 different little shortcuts defined like for example "tren" which takes the given text, puts it into a translator, and auto-detects language and translates to English. Ditto "sven", "ensv", "trsv", then I have "wiki", "wikise" (Wikipedia Sweden), "wikt", "aw" (ArchWiki), etc., etc.

I use these hundreds of times a day, and when I tried converting to Firefox (before I eventually landed on Brave) I couldn't find a simple way of moving these from my Google Chrome profile to Firefox and have it work like I expect it to. Perhaps that's possible now?

Re: Brave's AI assistant now integrates with PDFs and Google Drive

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Post by kibwen »

rekoil wrote: post #30
temp0826 wrote: post #28

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They're at the top of the pyramid for their shitcoin. Probably one of the best modern grifts out there.

And regular advertising (where the audience doesn't get paid for consuming adverts) isn't a grift?

Who ever said regular advertising isn't a grift? Advertising in general is just psychological manipulation designed to make you sadder and poorer by manufacturing a specific discontent in the victim and then selling them a supposed cure for that discontent.

Re: Brave's AI assistant now integrates with PDFs and Google Drive

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Post by jorvi »

rekoil wrote: post #39
jorvi wrote: post #37

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> Yes, it defaults to enabling their advertising features It does not, you have to opt in. You are right in the rest of your comment thought. And in general, when you compare default configs, Brave does far more to protect your privacy than Firefox does.

Oh it's opt-in now? It used to be opt-out, good change.

Unless we are talking about some very very early days, it has always been opt-in. Or rather, I have been installing Brave since ~2017 and I’ve never had Brave Rewards be on by default.

You’ll get notification badges on the Brave Rewards URL bar icon, but it isn’t active until you click on it and go through the BAT onboarding.

Re: Brave's AI assistant now integrates with PDFs and Google Drive

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Post by surajrmal »

vouaobrasil wrote: post #10

In my opinion, the goal of increasing automation has gone from a useful relief of labor to an obsession that will lead nowhere. Globally, this seems to be reflected only by increasing resource use and increasing ignorance of the natural world by producing purely for the sake of making consumerism more efficient. AI assistant in a browser...it's getting ridiculous.

Some ai features make a lot of sense. Automatically organizing tabs is amazing for helping me not get lost in a sea of tabs. Longer form auto complete saves me time, at least on mobile. I used to rely on Reddit comments to summarize trashy low quality articles to give me the primary points. Now that I've been reddit sober for a while, it's been helpful to have my browser do that summarization for me, helping me stay away from Reddit.

I can't say I will use every ai feature, but so far they've been helpful. I don't feel more ignorant. What I think makes people ignorant is outsourcing labor tasks like a cleaner for the home, a gardener for the yard, or handyman for basic repairs. I don't think those are necessarily wrong to outsource though.

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Post by 123yawaworht456 »

vouaobrasil wrote: post #10

In my opinion, the goal of increasing automation has gone from a useful relief of labor to an obsession that will lead nowhere. Globally, this seems to be reflected only by increasing resource use and increasing ignorance of the natural world by producing purely for the sake of making consumerism more efficient. AI assistant in a browser...it's getting ridiculous.

there are several AI features I would absolutely love to see integrated into the browser, primarily, content filtering with my own custom criteria.

for example, I don't want to see yuppie shit on news.ycombinator.com. right now, I have a userscript that filters out links from the worst offenders (e.g. newyorker), but every day, there are many more that shit up the front page and waste my time and attention. this could be solved with a very low parameter LLM by asking it to evaluate whether the text is related to science and technology or not.

hell, even images could be filtered with vision models, including local ones. I'd fucking love to hide a few broad categories of images from my sight, e.g. clickbaity youtube thumbnails (DeArrow helps to a degree)

Re: Brave's AI assistant now integrates with PDFs and Google Drive

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Post by rekoil »

kibwen wrote: post #43
rekoil wrote: post #30

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And regular advertising (where the audience doesn't get paid for consuming adverts) isn't a grift?

Who ever said regular advertising isn't a grift? Advertising in general is just psychological manipulation designed to make you sadder and poorer by manufacturing a specific discontent in the victim and then selling them a supposed cure for that discontent.

Then isn't it better when they're upfront about it?

Re: Brave's AI assistant now integrates with PDFs and Google Drive

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Post by rekoil »

jorvi wrote: post #44
rekoil wrote: post #39

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Oh it's opt-in now? It used to be opt-out, good change.

Unless we are talking about some very very early days, it has always been opt-in. Or rather, I have been installing Brave since ~2017 and I’ve never had Brave Rewards be on by default. You’ll get notification badges on the Brave Rewards URL bar icon, but it isn’t active until you click on it and go through the BAT onboarding.

Hmm, perhaps I'm mistaken then!

Re: Brave's AI assistant now integrates with PDFs and Google Drive

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Post by everdrive »

123yawaworht456 wrote: post #46
vouaobrasil wrote: post #10

In my opinion, the goal of increasing automation has gone from a useful relief of labor to an obsession that will lead nowhere. Globally, this seems to be reflected only by increasing resource use and increasing ignorance of the natural world by producing purely for the sake of making consumerism more efficient. AI assistant in a browser...it's getting ridiculous.

there are several AI features I would absolutely love to see integrated into the browser, primarily, content filtering with my own custom criteria. for example, I don't want to see yuppie shit on news.ycombinator.com. right now, I have a userscript that filters out links from the worst offenders (e.g. newyorker), but every day, there are many more that shit up the front page and waste my time and attention. this coul…

This is just an arms race. It expends more energy, and the "solution" from the other side will be to pump more garbage in.

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Post by tempodox »

vouaobrasil wrote: post #10

In my opinion, the goal of increasing automation has gone from a useful relief of labor to an obsession that will lead nowhere. Globally, this seems to be reflected only by increasing resource use and increasing ignorance of the natural world by producing purely for the sake of making consumerism more efficient. AI assistant in a browser...it's getting ridiculous.

The browser will be even less under our control than before, surveillance will go to the next level, and your private data will land in even more obscure places than before.

Ridiculous maybe, but by no means pointless. “AI” will be the end of ad blockers and a whole host of measures to secure a remnant of privacy on the net.

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