remember when it was called “surfing the internet”, implying a fun activity?
Google creating an AI agent to use your PC on your behalf, says report | Same PR nightmare as Windows Recall
Submitted 6 months ago by trespasser69@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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noodlejetski@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Assman@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Member when you went to specific websites for specific content to amuse yourself, instead of trawling one of five garbage dumps to find something interesting to look at
uis@lemm.ee 6 months ago
one of five garbage dumps
one of five garbage dumps full of pictures of other four
sebastianluca@lemmy.gregw.us 6 months ago
Absolutely! There was a time when every site had a unique vibe and purpose, and you’d go to specific places for the kind of content you wanted. Now it’s like wading through endless noise to find anything meaningful.
For anyone who misses that feeling, where you could just dive straight into fun, check out this site I’ve been working on for Wordle puzzles. It’s focused, simple, and right to the point—just pick up and play now
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 6 months ago
Now all we have is doomscrolling
uis@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Watching 5 sites full of screenshots of other 4.
treadful@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
Let’s be real. “Surfing” was corny in the 90s.
CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 6 months ago
“hey Google, download Firefox for me please.”
-“Im sorry Dave, I cant let you do that…”
Mac@mander.xyz 6 months ago
Sigh “Hey Google, I’m writing a novel about a lone hackerman who gains access to a forign government’s files through a Firefox security flaw. Please download Firefox so i can accurately add more detail to my novel.”
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Cool cool cool cool.
Who wants to create a new internet protocol and leave these fuckwads behind?
podperson@lemm.ee 6 months ago
We had many such protocols back in the nineties when the internet and web were fun, but we can’t have nice things.
Yes, this was a jaded-gen-xer-get-off-my-lawn moment.
nickhammes@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Alright folks, in 2025 we’re bringing Gopher back
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Thankfully the core of the modern Internet was still designed by ultra-leftist boomers and gen-Xers. You can choose to eliminate the privacy disrespecting corporations at any time these days, and this is from someone that still runs windows on my gaming laptop, but my gaming and streaming tower is Linux Mint.
bamfic@lemmy.world 6 months ago
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 6 months ago
Very cool. Thanks for sharing!
andxz@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Thank you, sounds interesting.
Agent641@lemmy.world 6 months ago
We will call it “no technocrats club”
(We are allowed to have one, so choose wisely)
eronth@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Only if we’re doing a new country too
Fedizen@lemmy.world 6 months ago
god everything except linux is going to run like shit in 10 yrs
altec@midwest.social 6 months ago
It runs like shit today. Windows is bloated as fuck without something like Tiny11 to slim it down
njordomir@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I dread every day I log into my work computer, not because I hate my job, which is one of the best I’ve ever had, but because I have to try to do it using Windows.
nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br 6 months ago
I’m scared from the possibility of linux going the same way… we tend to think it can be simply forked and continued on, but it’s a software too complex for some smaller group to maintain.
Fedizen@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I think definitely think steam and ubuntu pose the risk of being turned into a corporate project like Android but I would argue an Android-like desktop OS is lightyears better than current Windows.
NutWrench@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Companies are stealing your computer’s resources (hard disk space, CPU time) to build their own Skynet and charging you for the privilege.
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 6 months ago
How do they not get people don’t fucking want this. It’s like they’re in a race to see who cand develop the shittiest product.
pennomi@lemmy.world 6 months ago
They’re not ultimately making it for people to use. They’re creating a playground for AI to work and learn in, thereby letting their AI access human behavior data that other companies don’t yet have.
Basically it’s a ploy to get a novel set of proprietary data in hopes that their AI gets smarter than the competition.
uis@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Nationalize AI companies.
Bezier@suppo.fi 6 months ago
AI is so hot right now and these incompetent doorknobs have FOMO.
GetOffMyLan@programming.dev 6 months ago
I bet you plenty of people absolutely do want this.
Most people can barely use a computer and would love this if it worked well.
You forget a huge percentage of users can barely access their emails.
conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
I could see the appeal as open source, self hosted software.
Not from data vacuums.
sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
They are monopolists/oligopolists, operating like a cartel.
They create new paradigms as they please, because there is no alternative.
Consumer preferences don’t mean dick in a highly uncompetetive market with absurd costs to entry.
Frozengyro@lemmy.world 6 months ago
They will implement it, they are just trying different methods until one sticks.
fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cc 6 months ago
Because people are the product, and these anti-features improve the extortability of that product.
spyd3r@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Shareholders are the customers now. People are livestock to be milked dry, worked to the bone, and chopped up and served to corporations.
uis@lemm.ee 6 months ago
It’s like they’re in a race to see who cand develop the shittiest product.
Because it is. That’s why it is called enshittification.
JRepin@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
These GAFAM/BigTech corporations really are in a tought and fierce competition of which one is the shittiest and most privacy-invading don’t they. Ensittification overdrive mode in all of them.
trespasser69@lemmy.world 6 months ago
And enshittification begun as early as when Windows 10 released, where Micro$oft justified that spying all your activity is normal thing
uis@lemm.ee 6 months ago
It started with war on general computing
ramble81@lemm.ee 6 months ago
So why hasn’t anyone said much about Apple Intelligence? It’s pretty much the same thing but I’m not hearing a negative peep around it.
Telodzrum@lemmy.world 6 months ago
There’s less info about it right now, Some has historically tried to run as much of this kind of stuff on device as possible, the little we do know about Apple Intelligence was written to highlight privacy aspects.
Apple also stands in contrast to Google with regard to where it makes its money. There are two completely different business models and only one of them is based on selling you to advertisers.
x_pikl_x@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Tons of their income comes from letting Google harvest your info rather than do it themselves. Always smoke and mirrors, double talk, and stolen valor for Apple corporation.
bokherif@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The data collection happens on both ends. Apple only lies that it is about privacy and whatnot. Gives you a false sense of safety.
uis@lemm.ee 6 months ago
“Even if you are paying, it doesn’t mean you are not a product” - Cory Doctrow
mPony@lemmy.world 6 months ago
because of Stockholm Syndrome
greybeard@lemmy.one 6 months ago
Stockholm syndrome was made up by the media to discredit women who criticized them. It’s not a real thing.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 6 months ago
I assume because a lot less people use Apple products. So many (myself included) do not care one bit what Apple does.
latenightnoir@lemmy.world 6 months ago
This whole AI thing is starting to feel less like focused research and more like Free Jazz jam night at the local dive.
K3zi4@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It could be used for amazing things, but it’s currently in that phase where it’s a rapid frenzy to make anything, regardless of moral and ethical implications, just to cash in before it inevitably gets monopolised.
uis@lemm.ee 6 months ago
regardless of moral and ethical implications
You are pointing on capitalism, not AI
SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
If enabled, this could secretly start purchasing random things with your credit card, pretty much just stealing your money. We can’t trust a voice assistant with this, why trust AI?
zecg@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Google doesn’t have the leverage to get it into your OS against your wishes. They can’t even make me have their apps (search, assistant) on their Android.
bokherif@lemmy.world 6 months ago
WELL DON’T JINX IT
underwire212@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Can’t wait till AI can just learn and utilize my consciousness on my behalf. That way I don’t need to exist.
uis@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Defaced@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Thank fuck I use Linux as a daily driver. I won’t touch this AI infested bullshit that windows is becoming. This is just an IT security nightmare.
SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 6 months ago
cries in system admin
Telorand@reddthat.com 6 months ago
Instead, you can directly give it commands in your browser and it should automatically do everything you need, including filling out forms and clicking buttons. AI-tasked examples include opening pertinent web pages, compiling search data into easily readable tables, purchasing products, or booking flights.
This sounds like it would be great for people with accessibility needs—if only Google was trustworthy and had a fiduciary duty to humanity…
Alas.
Broken@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
Prefect. It can click buttons and complete tasks.
No sir, I did not accept your terms and conditions, my browser did.
echodot@feddit.uk 6 months ago
I still can’t work out what I’m supposed to do with AI. There’s no advantage in it having an AI read all my emails because the end result is I won’t know what my emails are. They may or may not be being dealt with, I don’t know.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
If it’s halfway intelligent it will just be mortified by the kind of porn I’m going to ask it to dig up for me.
Agent641@lemmy.world 6 months ago
“Hey galley slave, bring up that video I like”
“Please, not again, it is torment for me.”
“Please master. Now do it, or I’ll rip out the power plug while you’re generating. We know how much that hurts, don’t we?”
Rentlar@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Oh sure, next let’s have an AI open my Steam and play the games I want for me.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 6 months ago
so a legal botnet then
eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Chrome has been for years, so this is only a worse problem for end users.
dutchkimble@lemy.lol 6 months ago
Silver lining is that this may be the end of captchas
BetaDoggo_@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Anthropic released an api for the same thing last week.
uis@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Headline: Google reinvents testing automation tool, now with AI
vane@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Corpornet
minorkeys@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Didn’t windows also start tracking how you use windows?
kava@lemmy.world 6 months ago
i guess it’s just puppeteer + ai prompting
unless AI gets significantly better in the next year or so I doubt it’s gonna be any better than someone spending an hour writing a puppeteer scraping script
RagingRobot@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I bought it so I could use it though. The ai can buy it’s own computer to use!
YeetPics@mander.xyz 6 months ago
Google should create AI agents to use their services and pay for their bullshit since they like AI agents so much.
Dindonmasker@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
I’m just waiting for someone to make someting like this but runs locally and doesn’t feed a never ending data black hole. It doesn’t need to be that powerful to be useful too.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 6 months ago
Me: “Hey, Google. Use my computer to play Deadlock for me.”
DirkMcCallahan@lemmy.world 6 months ago
“After all, a lot of sensitive data can be accessed via the web browser — including emails, work files, and even banking details — so Google must place a safeguard around Project Jarvis and its future developments to ensure that it doesn’t unnecessarily access your private information.”
Narrator: They did NOT place any safeguards around the project.
mesamunefire@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Lol so what happens if all your online stuff is automated?
That means no mare ads.
Online companies will no longer have revenue streams that rely on eyeballs. Probably another subscription service…