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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.

  • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
    11·
    20 hours 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.