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ChatGPT Atlas

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763 points easton | 2 comments | 21 Oct 25 17:18 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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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. femiagbabiaka ◴[21 Oct 25 18:14 UTC] No.45659443[source]▶
The solution seems to be the Apple approach, problem is that people don't seem to like that UX very much.
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2. CuriouslyC ◴[21 Oct 25 18:27 UTC] No.45659633[source]▶
The problem with the apple approach is that it's fine grained and you have to restart apps for every change. I wouldn't care if nothing was allowed by default if when an app tried to do stuff it popped up the dialog at that time and asked for permissions needed to accomplish that task, but having to toggle stuff separately and restart the app each time is horrible UX.