Web Browsers That "Do Hey Hi" (AI)
The hype (marketing) industry is running low on "material". Before rushing ahead to "photonics" and "quantum" it's trying to exhaust what's still left in "hey hi" (AI, basically slop misportrayed as "intelligence"). It must maintain that ludicrous illusion that people 1) want slop and 2) demand for slop is growing owing to demand. Neither (1) nor (2) is true.
So GAFAM and its offshoots - and yes, we're looking at you, Mozilla! - is preloading Microsoft CoPilot (Firefox) and various "browser companies", including Alphabet Agency (Google), say that what we need inside the Web is more slop, even at the client level.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
In a nutshell, a lot (but not all) of what they're pushing is slop generation ("from within" the browser, sort of like "search bar" placements for a fee) and so-called "summaries" by slop, even if LLMs lack actual comprehension of text, hence all they can do is abbreviate pages, poorly, not summarising anything.
Worse yet, this is an attack on the Web because they offer to push sanitised, misleading slop in place of what people actually write.
We discussed this in IRC some hours ago; the bottom line is, geeks will know how to turn those things off or outright reject such browsers. We very much doubt anyone will wish to read a site like ours in "slop mode". It would simply be pointless, and get many facts wrong (distortion).
State-of-the-art plagiarism or "autocomplete on steroids" (not coined by us, nevertheless a nice description) don't have much/any prospect. There's no business utility/value/use cases. It's a mirage. It's a marketing lie. MinceR has shared the cartoon on the right. It sums it up nicely. █