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LLMs are essentially confident-sounding lying machines with a penchant to occasionally disclose private data or plagiarise existing work. While they do this, they also use vast amounts of energy
Just described most people
Coincidentally, also why I don’t care much for most social media content.
And yet here you are
Didn’t even think of it as a possibility. WTF would a browser need with LLM?
Edge is branding itself “The AI Browser”. Chrome has plans to embed LLMs for text input. Opera, the browser which was commandeered from the original Vivaldi team and turned into a crypto/VPN gimmick browser, is of course among the hardest leaning into the LLM trend.
Webpage authors use LLMs to generate extremely long articles, to make you scroll by ads for longer. You use LLMs in your browser to summarize those articles. The circle of life, or something.
I stumbled upon a website through DDG, and after a long intro, the main section supposedly where the thing I was searching for had “Sorry I can’t fulfill your request right now”. Basically a fully generated page to match my search with some parasitic seo tactics. The web be chaging. Front page of DDG.
Reminds me of the amazon products titled: “I’m sorry but I cannot fulfill this request it goes against OpenAI use policy,”.
I think we’re way beyond the point of no return. The internet has been ruined for good.
I’d love a browser-embedded LLM that had access to the DOM.
“Highlight all passages that talk about yadda yadda. Remove all other content. Convert the dates to the ISO standard. Put them on a number line chart, labeled by blah.”
That’d be great UX.
You are falling into a common trap. LLMs do not have understanding - asking it to do things like convert dates and put them on a number line may yield correct results sometimes, but since the LLM does not understand what it’s doing, it may “hallucinate” dates that look correct, but don’t actually align with the source.
Quick tool to summarize a page, proofread, or compare it to another source. Still needs a functioning human brain to separate the wheat from the chaff so to speak, but I could see a LLM (especially local) being useful in some ways.
I’m sure there are disabilities or unique use cases that could increase it’s usefulness, especially once they improve more.
Local translation of text comes to mind.
Yup, Firefox has it: https://browser.mt/ (it’s now a native part of Firefox)
Hmm maybe this is why Firefox is so damn slow on my raspberry pi
Hmm I don’t think it’s because of that feature, because it only runs when you explicitly ask it to translate a page for you. You should probably check your extensions, see if you have some redundant ones (a mistake people make is use multiple ad-blockers/anti-trackers, when just uBlock Origin + Firefox’s defaults are usually good enough).
Yet another reason why I use Vivaldi over every other chromium fork.
Still a Chromium fork.
Kind of ironic how they use an AI generated article image
Ummm… No?
Upload Date: Oct 9, 2022
Another cue is that the numbers aren’t gobbledigook
Basically, there’s no commercial benefit at this stage.
Once there is benefit they will add it in.
Whole lot of article for nothing.
That’s not what they said at all.
Yeah they did, but with some nice words around it all.
Did you read the article? It’s literally that llms are not at a stage where they’re useful. And then they end that once they become useful they’ll look at adding them in.
And Vivaldi is a business like any other, so it’s ultimately commercially driven. If you think they’re just running the business for the sake of being good then you’re incredibly naive.
Blocked for poor reading comprehension
Lol. People are way too tribalistic about their favourite products.
I’m not even saying anything negative - adding AI to your product is not a big deal, and they’ll do it when it makes sense to. Not sure why you have an issue with that/don’t understand that’s their intent as it’s very clearly stated by them.
Literally here you go: "Despite all this, we feel that the field on machine learning in general remains an exciting one and may lead to features that are actually useful. In the future, we hope that it will allow us to bring good privacy-respecting features to our users with a focus on improving discoverability and accesibility. "
