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Posted by AndrewDucker 4 days ago

ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web(www.anildash.com)
369 points | 154 commentspage 2
frgturpwd 6 hours ago|
Am I missing something here? I used it a few days ago and it does actually act like a web browser and give me the link. This seems to be a UI expectation issue rather than a "real philosophy".
kkarpkkarp 6 hours ago||
Reposting on Bluesky.

I like anti-web phrase. I think it will be a next phase after all those web 2.0 and web x.0 things.

https://bsky.app/profile/kkarpieszuk.bsky.social/post/3m4cxf...

hollowturtle 6 hours ago||
Tangent but related, if only google search would do a serious come back instead of not finding nothing anymore, we would have a tool to compare ai to. Sure gemini integration might still be a thing but with actual working search results
tigroferoce 5 hours ago|
You should try Kagi for this experience.
BrenBarn 8 hours ago||
The thing about command lines is off base, but overall the article is right that the ickiness of this thing is exceeded only by its evil.
hereme888 3 hours ago||
> The fake web page had no information newer than two or three weeks old.

What irks me the most about LLMs is when they lie about having followed your instructions to browse a site. And they keep lying, over and over again. For whatever reason, the ONE model that consistently does this is Gemini.

dangoodmanUT 10 hours ago||
> There were a tiny handful of incredible nerds who thought this was fun, mostly because 3D graphics and the physical touch of another human being hadn't been invented yet.

:skull:

k__ 5 hours ago||
They gotta do this.

If they don't put AI in every tool, they won't get new training data.

ValveFan6969 5 hours ago||
>I had typed "Taylor Swift" in a browser, and the response had literally zero links to Taylor Swift's actual website. If you stayed within what Atlas generated, you would have no way of knowing that Taylor Swift has a website at all.

Sounds like the browser did you a favor. Wonder if she'll be suing.

falcor84 4 hours ago|
It really lost me at

>There were a tiny handful of incredible nerds who thought this was fun, mostly because 3D graphics and the physical touch of another human being hadn't been invented yet.

I can barely stomach it with John Oliver does it, but reading this sort of snark without hearing a British voice is too much for me.

kleiba 3 hours ago|
Also, re: "a tiny handful of incredible nerds" - page 20 of this [0] document lists the sales figures for Infocom titles from 1981 to 1986: it sums up to over 2 million shipped units.

Granted, that number does not equal the number "nerds" who played the games because the same player will probably have bought multiple titles if they enjoyed interactive fiction.

However, also keep in mind that some of the games in that table were only available after 1981, i.e., at a later point during the 1981-1986 time frame. Also, the 80s were a prime decade for pirating games, so more people will have played Infocom titles than the sales figures suggest - the document itself mentions this because they sold hint books for some titles separately.

[0] https://ia601302.us.archive.org/1/items/InfocomCabinetMiscSa...

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