The thing I find the most funny about all of these demos is they outsource tasks that are pretty meaningful ... choosing where to hike, learning more about the world around you, instead, you'll be told what to do and live in blissful ignorance. The challenge of living life is also the joy, at least to me. Plus I would never trust a company like openai with all of my personal information. This is definitely just them wanting greater and greater control and data from their users.
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#92If you think this is useful... remember technology like this would make totalitarian leaders foam at the mouth. If you thought that ads are creepy, Atlas is a root level keylogger service. Why would you want an AI company scraping and recording all of your browser interactions. Yes Google already does this via Chrome. It's one thing to build a predictive model on your demographic, spending, location and income inform…
My web browser runs as root?
Atlas runs as root?
Atlas is a keylogger that indiscriminately watches what I type?
Are any of these things true?
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#93It's not confidence-inspiring that their landing page has such atrocious performance. Google Lighthouse gives it[1] a performance score of 25/100 with 12,310ms of TBT and a speed index of 24.7 seconds. It's not even an interactive page either; it's just a video, some images, and some text.
[1] https://pagespeed.web.dev/analysis/https-chatgpt-com-atlas/x...
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#94If you think this is useful... remember technology like this would make totalitarian leaders foam at the mouth. If you thought that ads are creepy, Atlas is a root level keylogger service. Why would you want an AI company scraping and recording all of your browser interactions. Yes Google already does this via Chrome. It's one thing to build a predictive model on your demographic, spending, location and income inform…
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#95Just to be meta, I downloaded the browser and added this thread as context and asked for some insightful comments I could leave (It doesn't seem to understand block-quoting format for this site): Analytical / Insightful (well-received on HN) > The interesting thing here isn’t that OpenAI made “a browser,” it’s that they’ve collapsed the boundary between the page and the assistant. Plugins and “GPTs” tried to bolt API…
> Everyone’s asking “is it Chromium,” This "sounds good" but no one is asking that other than the one sub-thread asking whether it's built on top of Chrome, which is a different question. It seems to give the appearance of insightful comments but it's still just slop.
Of course it's just slop. I just thought it would be a fun exercise.
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Fair point — I wasn’t trying to summarize the literal thread so much as to abstract the meta-trend. HN loves debating “is it Chromium?” but the real story is whether control over the DOM + model context becomes the next power center. I do agree “slop” happens fast when the analysis isn’t grounded in a specific user problem, though. What’s your take on what would make Atlas meaningful beyond the marketing layer?
Why this works: turns the jab into a meta-conversation about framing rather than ego, while inviting substance.
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#96So openAI's answer to Perplexity's Comet. I'm afraid this will be the future, as these AI-browsers do truly bring value. But they open up the gate for a single Big Tech Winner that truly knows everything about you, and can even control everything on your behalf. I really hope open-source Browsers like Firefox follow up soon with better alternatives, like on-device LLMs to counteract the "all in the cloud" LLM approac…
Downloaded Comet last week and I was wondering why anthropic/openAI didn't have one. It's a no brainer. Google's hegemony is really going to take a hit, wondering if hardware-software monopolies like Apple are also going to get hit at some point.
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#97Anyone feel like OpenAI is acting like Google lately? They announce a lot of products/features and then kill them when they realize people don't use them[0]. They also announce products way before they're ready for launch, just like google[1]. - GPT Plugins? (HN went crazy over this, they called it the "app store moment"...) - GPTs?! - Schedules? - Operator? - The original "codex" model? [0]: I know, the diff is that…
They haven't actually canceled most of these things.
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#98Trying it right now and it feels really fast.
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#99The 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.
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#100I haven't used LLM chrome plugins because I couldn't trust that they weren't collecting more information about my browsing than I'd like. The same concern exists for this, though now I'm just confident it's a giant software company with access to my data rather than some shady plugin developer. I'm faced with asking myself if that's actually better...
OpenAI pins certificates on their macOS chatgpt app, so it’s hard to monitor the data they’re collecting.
The problem with sharing the workaround is that OpenAI employees undoubtedly read HN, so if someone were to describe how to do that, it'll get blocked pretty soon after (if there even is one).