Post #1359221
2025-10-25 21:13 UTC
As a next step, AI companies are now offering "their" browser (read: Chromium ever so slightly themed with some company bullshit built in)
In part, this is certainly done to have yet another way to crawl the web, but this time user-directed and indistinguishable from actual human requests.
Replies (3)
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@jeff@mk.magicka.org 2025-10-25 21:17
@claudius@darmstadt.social we need crawler honeytrap that sends back random racist 4chan posts as the response.
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@chrysn@chaos.social 2025-10-26 15:06
@claudius Frankly, I'm kind of half-OK with that one: There's still the troubling copyright aspect, but at least being the browser and loading nothing but user viewed content at least gets their load off our servers.
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@raphaelmorgan@disabled.social 2025-10-27 15:46
@claudius fortunately, any humans using that browser chose to use the slop machine and I don't really care if they can see my website I get how it makes a hard choice for some people though If anyone sees this and works at an "AI" company, please do more sabotage lol