This is coming from someone who’s allegedly running a company that’s building a tool that should usher in a new era where computers will replace most of human work

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Well, indeed. A company that is allegedly so close to AGI does not bother spending time ensuring that adults can create erotica while releasing an AI-enabled web browser based on another company’s technology. It all seems a little desperate.

I code sites for a living (allegedly), and I honestly cannot overstate how uninterested I am in all these new browsers. Because these are not new browsers: these are Chromium frames with AI slapped on top.

The thing I found more interesting about the whole OpenAI announcement was Sam Altman tweeting: «10 am livestream today to launch a new product I’m quite excited about!». This is coming from someone who’s allegedly running a company that’s building a tool that should usher in a new era where computers will replace most of human work, where we’ll all have a super intelligence always available in our pockets, ready to dispense infinite wisdom.

And yet he’s quite excited about a fucking Chromium installation with AI slapped on top of it. I guess building an actual browser, from scratch, is still a task so monumentally difficult that even a company that is aiming for super-intelligence can’t tackle it.

Source: Manuel Moreale