> 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.

Eh I use ChatGPT for so many things I realize how many projects I used to just let go by.

Condensed version: 'OpenAI built a browser that mostly benefits OpenAI. Instead, they should have built a browser that mostly benefits the customer (and, thus, benefits OpenAI less).'

Welcome to capitalism.

I wish it wasn't like this, but this is the system we have. If you want OpenAI to do things differently, another company has to do it differently, show that doing it differently is even more profitable (see Apple and their privacy angle), and force OpenAI to change for competitive reasons.

Or figure out some way to trick our way into a constitutional convention so we can change the system.

Another edition of “if it’s free you are their product”…

how is this different from just training on your history

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1 - nobody cares about being "pro-web" or "anti-web"

2 - we didn't leave command-line interfaces behind 40 years ago

Every professional involved in saas, web , online content creation thinks the web is a beautiful thing.

In reality the fact of social media means web failed long time ago, and it only serves a void not taken by mobile apps , and now llm agents.

Why do I need to read everything about tailor Swift on you her web site , if I don’t know a single song of her ? ( I actually do ) .

I don’t want a screaming website tells me about her best new album ever , and her tours if LLM knows I don’t like pop music . The other way around if you like her you’d like a different set of information. Website can do that for you

Dash’s entire identity is bound up with narrating technology by translating its cultural shifts into moral parables. His record at actually building things is, at best, spotty. Now the LLM takes that role by absorbing, it summarising, editorialising. And like Winer, he often reads like a guy who has never really made peace with the modern era and who isn't content to declare the final draft of history unless it's had his fingerprints on it.

The machine is suddenly the narrator, and it doesn’t cite him. When he calls Atlas “anti-web,” he’s really saying it is “anti-author”.

In a way though, how much do we need people to narrate these shifts for us? Isn't the point of these technologies that we are able to do things for ourselves rather than rely on mediators to interpret it for us? If he can be outcompeted by LLMs, does that not just show how shallow his shtick is?