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    ChatGPT Atlas

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    763 points easton | 12 comments | 21 Oct 25 17:18 UTC | HN request time: 0.249s | source | bottom
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    jryio ◴[21 Oct 25 17:25 UTC] No.45658607[source]▶
    If you think this is useful... remember technology like this would make totalitarian leaders foam at the mouth.

    If you thought that ads are creepy, Atlas is a root level keylogger service. Why would you want an AI company scraping and recording all of your browser interactions.

    Yes Google already does this via Chrome. It's one thing to build a predictive model on your demographic, spending, location and income information in order to target then sell you advertisements...

    Quite another thing to build a model of your cognition by recording you from a company that is trying to build general intelligence - this is a training data and cognition exfiltration play.

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    1. GenerWork ◴[21 Oct 25 17:35 UTC] No.45658788[source]▶
    >It's one thing to build a predictive model on your demographic, spending and location and income information in order to target and sell you advertisements, and quite another thing to build a model of your cognition itself by recording you

    If Atlas is successful, there's no reason why Google won't try to mimic it. They already have Chrome and Gemini, all they'd have to do is put Gemini directly into Chrome, dedicate some TPUs to Gemini instances that are tied to Chrome, and boom, it's Atlas.

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    2. babelfish ◴[21 Oct 25 17:40 UTC] No.45658863[source]▶
    Gemini is already in Chrome. Atlas seems neat but it is not a unique product.
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    3. nextworddev ◴[21 Oct 25 17:40 UTC] No.45658867[source]▶
    They already have Gemini for chrome which no one uses.
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    4. ethmarks ◴[21 Oct 25 17:40 UTC] No.45658876[source]▶
    > all they'd have to do is put Gemini directly into Chrome

    Google would never do that! /s

    https://gemini.google/overview/gemini-in-chrome/

    5. ncr100 ◴[21 Oct 25 17:43 UTC] No.45658932[source]▶
    There's a dedicated button for it, now .. I speculate its usage will take up soon.

    - Chrome 141.0.7390.108 macOS

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    7. accrual ◴[21 Oct 25 17:46 UTC] No.45658996{3}[source]▶
    Yes, I don't use Chrome, but had to open it the other day and noticed an "AI Mode" button in the URL bar. No thank you.
    8. andysinclair ◴[21 Oct 25 18:07 UTC] No.45659324[source]▶
    and there is Copilot for Edge which no one uses.

    It can also summarize pages, scale recipes etc.

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    9. beardyw ◴[21 Oct 25 18:11 UTC] No.45659390[source]▶
    Not sure how you can say that. Half the time you do a search the answer comes from Gemini. It might be the most used, without anyone doing it deliberately.
    10. onlyrealcuzzo ◴[21 Oct 25 18:12 UTC] No.45659418[source]▶
    > If Atlas is successful, there's no reason why Google won't try to mimic it.

    Regulation.

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    12. m4xw3llx ◴[22 Oct 25 01:11 UTC] No.45663842{3}[source]▶
    That Copilot feature is very useful actually, the summarize is good enough for a free AI with no ads.