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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/54848233

Brave has introduced a new AI browsing feature that leverages Leo, its privacy-respecting AI assistant, to perform automated tasks for the user.

  • Krauerking@lemy.lol
    13·
    1 day ago

    I just dont get having an LLM browse the internet for you.

    Like i get the internet is dead thing but, its truly dead if you cant even bother to explore it yourself.

    • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
      1·
      51 minutes ago

      Consider these requests:

      • Remove this ad/banner/spam for me.

      • Create a ublock rule

      • Filter slop from these results

      • Clean up this spammy website, and turn it dark

      • Filter out extraneous ads, and put all the prices for this shopping site into a spreadsheet for me, with fees

      • Check my grammar/wording here. Translate that.

      • Find useful information on X topic, give me some links to check.

      Basically, it can be a tool to combat enshittification. And these kinds of tasks are simple/unconsequential/verifiable enough for local LLMs (or private APIs), especially if you are cognizant of their unreliability.

      In short, fight LLM slop with LLMs.

      To be clear, that tool is not Brave. I wouldn’t touch Brave with a 10 foot pole.

      Nor Opera Browser, nor Atlas, nor any shitty scam or Tech Bro data farm. It should not pop up and beg you to use AI.

      …But the open source efforts in this vein can be neat, rarely used tools.

    • recursive_recursion@piefed.caOPEnglish
      6·
      1 day ago

      Me too :(

      I think at this point every non-gpl-licensed business will likely at some point just become a corrupted orphan crushing machine

      • ZDL@lazysoci.al
        151·
        1 day ago

        It appears that they share the complete inability to comprehend “consent” of every other techbrodouche.

        • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
          312·
          1 day ago

          If you go into settings and see how easy it is to turn off, and you know, read the TOU, they’ve actually made it exceedingly easy to consent or revoke consent as one wishes.

          But then again you probably don’t actually use it and don’t know that.

          • ZDL@lazysoci.al
            71·
            16 hours ago

            You are missing the fucking point. (Meaning you are probably one of the techbrodouches.)

            Consent is positive, not negative.

            Here’s an experiment for you. Walk up to a strange woman you find attractive and grab her ass. When, not if, she reacts negatively, tell her it’s OK: if she doesn’t want her ass grabbed she can just ask you to let go. See how well that goes over as you explain your “opt-out” philosophy to a judge. THAT is the “Brave” model here. Inflict the thing someone doesn’t want and say “oh, but it’s easy to ask me to stop”.

            No. That is not the right way to navigate consent.

            The right way to navigate it is to ask before grabbing the ass. Do that and you might get scolding, ejected from the club, whatever but you’re not going to wind up in jail for sexual assault. Or, in this case, do this before you turn on the AI features. Make the consent positive, not negative.

            But you knew that already. You just get your jollies from forcing undesired things on people, right?

        • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
          14·
          1 day ago

          Something must have changed in that case. (Maybe due to EU regulations?)

          I had to opt out of it back when I turned those settings off. Still though, very easy to do. They’re not hiding it like Microsoft or Google.

          • optissima@lemmy.ml
            5·
            1 day ago

            No pop up to opt out when it’s installed = not easy to do when most people are tech illiterate.