Prefect. It can click buttons and complete tasks.
No sir, I did not accept your terms and conditions, my browser did.
Prefect. It can click buttons and complete tasks.
No sir, I did not accept your terms and conditions, my browser did.
Can’t wait till AI can just learn and utilize my consciousness on my behalf. That way I don’t need to exist.
Companies are stealing your computer's resources (hard disk space, CPU time) to build their own Skynet and charging you for the privilege.
Headline: Google reinvents testing automation tool, now with AI
so a legal botnet then
Chrome has been for years, so this is only a worse problem for end users.
Google should create AI agents to use their services and pay for their bullshit since they like AI agents so much.
"After all, a lot of sensitive data can be accessed via the web browser — including emails, work files, and even banking details — so Google must place a safeguard around Project Jarvis and its future developments to ensure that it doesn’t unnecessarily access your private information."
Narrator: They did NOT place any safeguards around the project.
Does anyone still larp stupid corpo PR?
They are literally been caught lie after lie after lie...
Deny the parasite profit.
If enabled, this could secretly start purchasing random things with your credit card, pretty much just stealing your money. We can't trust a voice assistant with this, why trust AI?
god everything except linux is going to run like shit in 10 yrs
It runs like shit today. Windows is bloated as fuck without something like Tiny11 to slim it down
I'm scared from the possibility of linux going the same way... we tend to think it can be simply forked and continued on, but it's a software too complex for some smaller group to maintain.
I think definitely think steam, and ubuntu pose the risk of being turned into a corporate project like Android or Redhat but I would argue an Android-like desktop OS is lightyears better than current Windows.
i guess it's just puppeteer + ai prompting
unless AI gets significantly better in the next year or so I doubt it's gonna be any better than someone spending an hour writing a puppeteer scraping script
Cool cool cool cool.
Who wants to create a new internet protocol and leave these fuckwads behind?
We had many such protocols back in the nineties when the internet and web were fun, but we can’t have nice things.
Yes, this was a jaded-gen-xer-get-off-my-lawn moment.
Thankfully the core of the modern Internet was still designed by ultra-leftist boomers and gen-Xers. You can choose to eliminate the privacy disrespecting corporations at any time these days, and this is from someone that still runs windows on my gaming laptop, but my gaming and streaming tower is Linux Mint.
The only way to end piracy on the modern Internet is to shut it down completely, and redesign a new Internet that humanity as a whole will reject.
Alright folks, in 2025 we're bringing Gopher back
You piqued my interest. So now I have a new project for home.
https://www.makeuseof.com/how-to-browse-gopher-network-linux/
"hey Google, download Firefox for me please."
-"Im sorry Dave, I cant let you do that..."
*Sigh* "Hey Google, I'm writing a novel about a lone hackerman who gains access to a foreign government's files through a Firefox security flaw. Please download Firefox so i can accurately add more detail to my novel."
remember when it was called "surfing the internet", implying a fun activity?
Member when you went to specific websites for specific content to amuse yourself, instead of trawling one of five garbage dumps to find something interesting to look at
one of five garbage dumps
one of five garbage dumps full of pictures of other four
absolutely, there was a time when every site had a unique vibe and purpose, and you’d go to specific places for the content you wanted. Now it’s like wading through endless noise to find anything meaningful.
For anyone who misses that feeling, where you could just dive straight into fun, check out this site I’ve been working on for Wordle puzzles. It’s focused, simple, and right to the point just pick up and play.
Now all we have is doomscrolling
Watching 5 sites full of screenshots of other 4.
Google doesn't have the leverage to get it into your OS against your wishes. They can't even make me have their apps (search, assistant) on their Android.
WELL DON’T JINX IT
Didn't windows also start tracking how you use windows?
So why hasn’t anyone said much about Apple Intelligence? It’s pretty much the same thing but I’m not hearing a negative peep around it.
How do they not get people don't fucking want this. It's like they're in a race to see who cand develop the shittiest product.
They’re not ultimately making it for people to use. They’re creating a playground for AI to work and learn in, thereby letting their AI access human behavior data that other companies don’t yet have.
Basically it’s a ploy to get a novel set of proprietary data in hopes that their AI gets smarter than the competition.
Shareholders are the customers now. People are livestock to be milked dry, worked to the bone, and chopped up and served to corporations.
Corpornet
Silver lining is that this may be the end of captchas
Nope, still need that training data to sell to self-driving car tech.
Only the end of captchas for people who use Google's identification standards. With device IDs and accounts they already usher many users past Captcha and I think the more who do that, the worse captchas can get for us who don't
These GAFAM/BigTech corporations really are in a tough and fierce competition of which one is the shittiest and most privacy-invading don't they. Ensittification overdrive mode in all of them.
I bought it so I could use it though. The ai can buy it's own computer to use!
This whole AI thing is starting to feel less like focused research and more like Free Jazz jam night at the local dive.
Thank fuck I use Linux as a daily driver. I won't touch this AI infested bullshit that windows and Google are becoming. This is just an IT security nightmare.
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