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ChatGPT Atlas

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763 points easton | 1 comments | 21 Oct 25 17:18 UTC | HN request time: 0.353s | 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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hbn ◴[21 Oct 25 18:03 UTC] No.45659260[source]▶
After skimming the product page I'm still not sure what extra data exactly everyone is so confident is being gathered/used in a way that Google wouldn't already be doing in Chrome. As far as I can tell, most of these features are already integrated into Chrome but with Gemini.

What exact feature in Atlas would need to log your every keystroke? Could they be doing that? Yes. But so could Google and in both cases they've got about equal reason to be doing it and feeding it into your personalized prediction model.

I don't see how this is so different from Chrome.

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1. josfredo ◴[21 Oct 25 21:30 UTC] No.45661978[source]▶
I like how honest and blunt your comment is, and what it says about our current relationship with bigtech. Because what you say is accurate, people no longer see a problem in adopting technologies like OpenAI's Atlas. Google set a standard, and what used to be a massive red flag is now "a price we've already paid". No new harm is felt.