Post #2129048

2026-05-06 17:18 UTC

One or more person or persons may or may not have spoken, and in a voice funneled through a person whose professional success explicitly hinges on demand for this feature, cried out: “eight.” That’s web standards, baby! https://wil.to/posts/googles-prompt-api/

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@Wilto@front-end.social 2026-05-06 17:23

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@gklyne@indieweb.social 2026-05-07 13:57

@Wilto@front-end.social - amused by: “Google participates in the web standards process the way a bear participates in the “camping” process.” 😂

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@gbargoud@masto.nyc 2026-05-07 20:36

@Wilto@front-end.social > in short: you now have an LLM running on your machine, and any website you visit can make use of it, and whatever processing resources it requires. Wait so they just shoved remote code execution into every browser and called it a convenience?

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@7heo@ieji.de 2026-05-08 07:37

@Wilto@front-end.social Tbh, this kind of insidious, arrogant imposition does not come out of the blue unannounced. This has been decades in the making, with google literally taking ownership of all that makes the web the web, bit by bit, deceptively; exploiting its early image as a benefactor, taking advantage of the utter absence of funding in FOSS, of the closeted and clerical nature of committees, all in the name of "profit". They literally became the web. We collectively welcomed them, in spite of many warnings. I'd boast "We told you so" to anyone within hearing range, but I doubt any of the concerned parties would ever have the self-awareness to feel anything but egocentric concern. 🤷‍♂️

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