OpenAI wants to buy Chrome and make it an “AI-first” experience
OpenAI wants to buy Chrome and make it an “AI-first” experience
OpenAI would love to own Chrome, and it’s allegedly not alone.
Chome is already dead... it's just a zombie.
Well, killing off Chrome would probably be a good thing.
Validating my years old decision to use Firefox
When a company considers buying Chrome because it could help them extend the reach of their product, they are fucking drunk and need to go home. This would be like buying the state of Nevada so you could put up billboards all over Las Vegas.
Great! Now not only can chrome eat all my system memory, it can use all my GPU memory at the same time! It's genius!
Likely it'll use the cloud for processing, you'll just get really hard-to-opt-out AI features, like "prompt by default" and "AI autocomplete", which you can only "snooze" as they'll automatically be turned back on the moment there's a "great new feature", like putting a filter on by default on image generators to fool the eye that it's made by real artists.
Why connect to the Internet with it then. The browser could just make everything up on the fly.
Got questions about a medication?
Maybe you want to check up on some disease symptoms?
AI can make something that sounds vaguely plausible.
Browsing the internet will be like playing AI Quake II, you'll think you are in this alternate universe.
Why use head if you can use ChatGPT. Remove head and start working smarter.
I don't fucking understand why Lemmy is permanently stuck in 2023 with AI
Using RAG (retrieval augmented generation) results in much lower, almost negligible confabulation rates
Generally speaking, people used ChatGPT back when it first came out, had a bad experience and never fucked with it again, so their understanding of it is frozen in time. Most people know next to nothing about the current state of AI unless you're a researcher or enthusiast. They're completely unprepared for the actual state of the industry.
WTF? Just download it for free.
Isn't Google going to do it themselves?
Sounds like the best thing that could happen to Firefox
Mozilla spinning off control of its development to an independent group the way they did with Thunderbird would be the best thing that could happen to Firefox.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Thunderbird :
Operated by MZLA Technologies Corporation, a subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation, Thunderbird is an independent, community-driven project that is managed and overseen by the Thunderbird Council, which is elected by the Thunderbird community.
Chrome self-destructing because of stupidity like AI would only ever manage to be a close second, at best.
Has Mozilla indicated any openness to taking that approach with Firefox?
Firefox, the software mainly driven by Mozilla, which is heavily investing in AI and ads ventures? That Firefox?
But, maybe "it will be different this time", I guess.
this!
I’ve said this before and will say it again. The only tech companies that should be allowed to buy Chrome are Canonical and its equivalents.
Isn't Canonical up to some crummy schemes, too?
Sure but not by at least an order of magnitude
OpenAI is like a zombie stumbling around trying to infect everything. We shove it away because it’s fuckin’ gross and we want nothing to do with it, while the bosses that reanimated it are like “well fuck, we made this thing, we have to use it for something.”
don't they already have brave for that?
What does Brave have to do with it? It doesn't even have ChatGPT's models as an option.
And if you thought there was some natural end point to enshittification, here's your evidence that there's no such thing.
This can't happen. Not because I think google is doing a wonderful job, but it's got serious market share now. Basically a monopoly. It needs to leave the hands of for profit companies and be transitioned to a foundation.
Chromium is open source? What a concept...
How the fuck would this be more cost effective than them making their own chrome based browser and not be a demonstration of their over inflated operating costs and company valuation?
If you are paying for a service that is charging you enough to allow them to buy the most widly used browser from a company whose business model is to monopolize data, then maybe you're paying them a titbit more than what the service they're providing is worth.
How to kill Chrome faster, make it AI only. LOL!!!
Chrome or Chromium project?
Good thing I’ve never used the garbage that is chrome or chatgpt 👍
Yes please