ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web

Posted by AndrewDucker 10/25/2025

ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web(www.anildash.com)

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k__ 10/29/2025|

They gotta do this.

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

karaterobot 10/29/2025||

The headline is incorrect, it should say "A Browser That's Anti-Web". Many other browsers are also trying to destroy the web for their own benefit, including some you may have heard of.

kingkawn 10/29/2025||

People didn’t hate DOS it just was what it was

hermitcrab 10/29/2025||

'Atlas' as in 'Atlas Shrugged' by any chance? If so, ugh.

roundatlas 10/29/2025||

What now remains is, after hearing glowing feedback, Satya making this the default browser in Windows as part of Microsoft and OpenAI's next chapter.

falcor84 10/29/2025||

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 10/29/2025|

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...

PaulHoule 10/29/2025||

One could make the case that the web of 2025 is anti-human. AI clients are one of very few exits we have from enshittification. ChatGPT can read all the ads so you don’t have to. The whole point of those annoying CAPTCHAs and those stupidity anime girls on all the kernel web sites is slamming the door from any exit from Google’s world that we live in.

dtagames 10/29/2025|

This article is deep, important, and easily misinterpreted. The TL;DR is that a plausible business model for AI companies is centered around surveillance advertising and content gating like Google or Meta, but in a much more insidious and invasive form.

Worth reading to the end.

brabel 10/29/2025|

I found the article is no more than ranting about something that they are just projecting. The browser may not be for everyone, but I think there’s a lot of value to an AI tool that helps you find what you’re looking for without shoving as many ads as possible down your throat while summarizing content to your needs. Supposing OpenAI is not the monster that is trying to kill the web and lock you up , can’t you see how that may be a useful tool?

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