Claude for Chrome

Turned out my prediction was wrong that the big lab’s wouldn’t release a browser with cross-site access before it was safe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45004846

> Anthropic says it hopes to use this research preview as a chance to catch and address novel safety risks; however, the company has already introduced several defenses against prompt injection attacks. The company says its interventions reduced the success rate of prompt injection attacks from 23.6% to 11.2%.

They probably realized that the move here is to just put it out there and if there are consequences, they can just wave their hands of it. Unlikely to be government backlash and legal backlash will come down to "we told you it was experimental".

They probably wanted to start collect training data for their computer use models.