OpenAI's fake browser is a real tip of the hand for Big Tech billionaires - it's the manifestation of what they've wanted to do all along: Find out what people want, make an externally similar but non-functional facsimile of it & then trick us into usi...
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OpenAI's fake browser is a real tip of the hand for Big Tech billionaires - it's the manifestation of what they've wanted to do all along: Find out what people want, make an externally similar but non-functional facsimile of it & then trick us into using that in stead of the real thing, until they can finally make it the only choice we have.
https://www.anildash.com/2025/10/22/atlas-anti-web-browser/ @anildash
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OpenAI's fake browser is a real tip of the hand for Big Tech billionaires - it's the manifestation of what they've wanted to do all along: Find out what people want, make an externally similar but non-functional facsimile of it & then trick us into using that in stead of the real thing, until they can finally make it the only choice we have.
https://www.anildash.com/2025/10/22/atlas-anti-web-browser/ @anildash
@jwcph @anildash Step one was to spam Google Search with useless ai slob, rendering it mostly useless.
Providing an incredible convenient alternative, where a little group of oligarchs control which information and worldview users are exposed to, is pending.
Attacks on Wikipedia, public libraries et al is ongoing and intensifying, facts and truth is a threat which must be obliterated or controlled. -
@jwcph @anildash Step one was to spam Google Search with useless ai slob, rendering it mostly useless.
Providing an incredible convenient alternative, where a little group of oligarchs control which information and worldview users are exposed to, is pending.
Attacks on Wikipedia, public libraries et al is ongoing and intensifying, facts and truth is a threat which must be obliterated or controlled.@jesn @anildash Well, step one was Google deliberately making search worse - because Google wants the same thing; they may have said originally that they wanted to make information avaliable, but the truth is they want our time, attention & data & have no intention of giving us anything in return.
But yes.
