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jaredwiener 8 months ago | hide | past | favorite



Presumably they'll integrate Chrome into their web-scraping botnet.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44785636


Somehow the idea of agents reporting to the Borg-collective about the contents of web pages they've seen fascinates me, it's like the librarians of the Library of Babel (1), but... AI.

Disclaimer: it's a fascinating idea, but of course a bad idea ripe for abuse in our dystopia.

1) https://sites.evergreen.edu/politicalshakespeares/wp-content...


If the Chrome browser could be a business by itself worth $34billion, shouldn't we all be quaking in terror at the thought of how they'd monetize it?




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