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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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doso ◴[21 Oct 25 18:23 UTC] No.45659580[source]▶
Something's bugging me about Atlas - it's clearly Chromium-based (you can tell from the user agent and UI), but I can't find any credit to Chromium anywhere. No license info, no acknowledgments, and when I try to access chrome:// pages they're blocked.

Maybe I'm overthinking this, but shouldn't there be some transparency about what you're building on top of? Especially with open source projects that have attribution requirements? I get that it's still early days, but this feels like a pretty basic thing to get right.

Anyone else notice this or know if this is standard practice? Just seems odd to me that they're not being upfront about the foundation they're building on.

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1. Workaccount2 ◴[21 Oct 25 21:41 UTC] No.45662077[source]▶
It's a pretty bad look to be using the foundations of your direct competitor.
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2. spectraldrift ◴[22 Oct 25 00:06 UTC] No.45663389[source]▶
They already did it with Google's transformer architecture- why not Google's open-source browser framework too? They're pretty much a fork of Google's good-faith open-source efforts at this point.