“Let’s give everyone an army of spambots! What could go wrong?”
I’m gonna start reading books again.
I don’t know if he joking or not but seriously I started reading again regularly like a year ish ago and I think my attention span getting better. Just not spending as much time scrolling bullshit is a big W along with practicing a longer attention span weather it’s reading or something else. Go get a terry pratchet book !
This actually sounds interesting.
“Find all comments on lemmy that are wrong. Respond explaining how they are wrong.”
That would save me a lot of work.
Someone? Everyone!
Brilliant! You’ll save us all a lot of work. Plus we will finally figure out which version of Linux is the correct one.
You know what this is launching just in time for?
Tax season.
Cue* 10 million people getting audited because they let their browser file their taxes for them.
Cue.
Yeah, I realized that as soon as I posted it.
If they’re auditing that many of them, there will be a queue, too.
lol as if the IRS is going to audit anyone now.
They will if you’re not a rich fascist.
Here’s hoping they’ll use the same model as their clients…
In practice that looks like this: https://youtube.com/shorts/pjT0ubmENWk
It sure looks creepy when your browser suddenly starts doing all kinds of stuff.
In reality, it’s going to screw so much stuff up and do so many things you don’t want it to do, that you’re going end up spending a lot of time just correcting all the mistakes it makes.
And when you’re not fighting to stop it from doing more things you don’t want it to do, you’re going spend your time worrying about what it will do next that you’re going have to fix.
And unless you pay for the most expensive phone and the most expensive tier of service, they’ll probably dumb it down on purpose and your life is going be hard.
Mistake prevention is far better than mistake correction.
I’ll be disabling that shit as soon as I install.
No percent truth was in that video
He did say it makes screenshots of everything and sends it to a cloud AI for processing. I believe that. It’s also a good reason for not wanting it.
I loathe (couldn’t figure out a synonym more than that) the word agentic. It sums up everything bad and wrong about AI.
They want to push all this shit in browsers so that they can start automatically buying shit once they’re selling ads
God, I hadn’t thought of that. It’s going to be like cancelling a cable subscription but worse.
It will handle your socials, chats, your agenda, your website, your credit card, your vacations, your photos from the moment of activation to well after death…
If they marketed “Agentic AI” as a way for someone to disappear from the internet entirely and be replaced by AI, I’d finally get onboard.
Basically don’t know how to interpret “autobrowse” in any other way. Bit like “autopilot”, you “should” have the hands on the steering wheel but…
All so you can spend more time generating value for your masters and overlords. Huzzah, we’ve eliminated the pesky scourge of free time!
Also so they can easily predict who is with them and who is against them. Who’s got the hot new ideas so they can beat them to market. Who might challenge the status quo.
Is one of those agents going to jerk off for you too? Who the fuck needs an agent to browse the web for them?
I see someone didn’t use Ask Jeeves back then /s
It didn’t make sense then, and it doesn’t make sense now. Keyword searches with an understanding of search syntax was always king.
Keyword searches with an understanding of search syntax was always king.
Isn’t that only because of the limitations of the available technology only being able to handle simple strings, though? Conversational computing has been a pipe dream since early sci-fi, where characters would talk to their computers as if they were human; George Jetson never spoke to Rosie in keyword queries.
I feel like keyword search syntax being “king” is more of a symptom, than an intentional choice.
You realise that the reason conversational computing is so popular in science fiction, is because it looks better on camera, right.
This is a very good point - in books/dramas it helps the exposition to have a character you can relay half the plot details to. Similarly in radio dramas, every conversation between characters starts with saying each others names and a full recap of whatever the subject is… But nobody in the real world does or wants to talk like that.
Real people just say “hey, is that thing fixed yet?”, not “hello Chris, you remember yesterday we were discussing the il problem with the Thing, and you proposed Cornfootling it; what happened?”
When I want Alexa to turn on the lights, I want to just say “Alexa, turn on the lights”, not have a goddamned debate. And when I want to search for whatever the hell Cornfootling is, I just want to type “Cornfootling” and hit search.
It’s trying to solve a problem created by SEO slop. “Find me the cheapest car rental”… That’s actually hard to do now bc SEO grift. Rather than building a more honest system, you get “agents” to do the searching for you
I love software that acts without my consent or knowledge while atrophying my brain and wasting tremendous amounts of resources
These companies are all tone deaf
Its more than tone. They are just deaf dumb and stupid when it comes to what their users are saying.
That does it, I’m never installing Chrome again. I haven’t in years anyway because it’s garbage spyware, but still.
save us vivaldi you’re our only hope
Nah, Firefox. Anything based on the blink engine is vulnerable to upstream fuckiness.
Ladybird is also getting there.
Nah, Firefox. Anything based on the blink engine is vulnerable to upstream fuckiness.
so aren’t firefox forks
and ladybird might be nice but the dev outed himself as a right wing bigot
Servo browser is the other big from the ground browser project. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servo_(software)
Firefox forks are less vulnerable purely due to the fact that the main browser engine isnt being developed by a self interested advertising company. (See the recent manifest V3 and discontinuation of V2 shitshow for a example of googles stranglehold causing problems)
& when it comes to browser engines I’ll set politics aside even if someone has views in very poor taste. The project overall is FOSS and thusly is being developed by hundreds of contributors, I’ve contributed a few bits and pieces for it even.
Having an additional standalone browser engine serves as insurance against Mozilla doing a stupid and a bulwark against Google dominance.
