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Re: Gemini in Chrome

#61

> Gemini in Chrome is first rolling out to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers in the US who have their Chrome language set to English Thought it was important enough but somewhat hidden on their website behind a scrolling faq.

It's also been rolled out to Chrome Canary/Beta it seems

Re: Gemini in Chrome

#62

Can somebody please share what your "summarize this page for me" use cases are? I really struggle to understand how many people seem to have "summarize this" as their main LLM use case. And I use LLMs every day, for so many tasks - just never this one. Can you please share a couple of real-world times where you couldn't bother to read the "thing" and truly got value from having a LLM read it for you?

I don't use it to summarize, but I like to ask about the key takeaways for long-form content. E.g., "what did he say that was noteworthy or new about X [in this long interview I don't time to read right now]"

Re: Gemini in Chrome

#63
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Frankly this ship has sailed long time ago, as sad as it sounds.

Only if you choose to use google products. Plenty of better paid alternatives.

If you're not using Google products you're most likly not using Chrome, so have nothing to worry about with this.

Re: Gemini in Chrome

#64

Can somebody please share what your "summarize this page for me" use cases are? I really struggle to understand how many people seem to have "summarize this" as their main LLM use case. And I use LLMs every day, for so many tasks - just never this one. Can you please share a couple of real-world times where you couldn't bother to read the "thing" and truly got value from having a LLM read it for you?

Any recipe page on the Web is unreadable without summarization cause they are made for seo.

Re: Gemini in Chrome

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post #34

Can somebody please share what your "summarize this page for me" use cases are? I really struggle to understand how many people seem to have "summarize this" as their main LLM use case. And I use LLMs every day, for so many tasks - just never this one. Can you please share a couple of real-world times where you couldn't bother to read the "thing" and truly got value from having a LLM read it for you?

Recipes. "Summarize it. Keep only instructions and ingredients (more prompt about how to format instructions, what units to use, how to order instructions) and start with one sentence that describes the dish and it's origin" Which is a terrible waste, really. Many recipes are blown up to make them copyrightable. Often done with AI. And then I use AI to remove all that again.

Try to look at the recipe page without adblock. You will see ads every couple sentences. Longer article more ads.

Re: Gemini in Chrome

#66
post #28

How can OpenAI, Anthropic, or any other AI player compete against this? Google can just slap their products to everybody in Android, Google Chrome, Google Search, which creates an unfair advantage.

If this integration is like the Googles other ones then it will use much cheaper to run models for it. And not their Gemini ones.

Re: Gemini in Chrome

#67
"Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers can now get early access to Gemini in Chrome. Learn more"

And that link goes to a page that does not know I already have AI Pro subscription and does not say anything about "early access to Gemini in Chrome". Great.

Re: Gemini in Chrome

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post #28

How can OpenAI, Anthropic, or any other AI player compete against this? Google can just slap their products to everybody in Android, Google Chrome, Google Search, which creates an unfair advantage.

What's unfair about that? Google is definitely a monopoly, but as long as other models can eventually enjoy similar integrations, through extensions or otherwise, I don't see how it's unfair for Google to add their model to their browser and search page, especially when their chief business model of search (OK, we know it's really just ads, but still) is currently being directly threatened by other model and search p…

>as long as other models can eventually enjoy similar integrations, through extensions

They can't, Gemini is being baked in the browser. Other players can't do this.

Re: Gemini in Chrome

#69

Can somebody please share what your "summarize this page for me" use cases are? I really struggle to understand how many people seem to have "summarize this" as their main LLM use case. And I use LLMs every day, for so many tasks - just never this one. Can you please share a couple of real-world times where you couldn't bother to read the "thing" and truly got value from having a LLM read it for you?

Yeah we already have a perfectly serviceable way to extract the meat from an article and avoid the filler (i.e. don't click just read the headline)

> (i.e. don't click just read the headline)

And the HN comments!

Re: Gemini in Chrome

#70

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Only if you choose to use google products. Plenty of better paid alternatives.

If you're not using Google products you're most likly not using Chrome, so have nothing to worry about with this.

I worry for other people
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