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Companies are stealing your computer's resources (hard disk space, CPU time) to build their own Skynet and charging you for the privilege.
Prefect. It can click buttons and complete tasks.
No sir, I did not accept your terms and conditions, my browser did.
Can’t wait till AI can just learn and utilize my consciousness on my behalf. That way I don’t need to exist.
If enabled, this could secretly start purchasing random things with your credit card, pretty much just stealing your money. We can't trust a voice assistant with this, why trust AI?
so a legal botnet then
Chrome has been for years, so this is only a worse problem for end users.
Headline: Google reinvents testing automation tool, now with AI
Corpornet
Didn't windows also start tracking how you use windows?
i guess it's just puppeteer + ai prompting
unless AI gets significantly better in the next year or so I doubt it's gonna be any better than someone spending an hour writing a puppeteer scraping script
I bought it so I could use it though. The ai can buy it's own computer to use!
Google should create AI agents to use their services and pay for their bullshit since they like AI agents so much.
Me: "Hey, Google. Use my computer to play Deadlock for me."
"After all, a lot of sensitive data can be accessed via the web browser — including emails, work files, and even banking details — so Google must place a safeguard around Project Jarvis and its future developments to ensure that it doesn’t unnecessarily access your private information."
Narrator: They did NOT place any safeguards around the project.
remember when it was called "surfing the internet", implying a fun activity?
Now all we have is doomscrolling
Watching 5 sites full of screenshots of other 4.
"hey Google, download Firefox for me please."
-"Im sorry Dave, I cant let you do that..."
