On: Gemini in Chrome

[be_erik]

I don’t understand who this is for? I just tried Anthropic’s extension and it feels like writing automated selenium tests.

LLMs interacting with markup is not the best abstraction layer.

[skybrian → be_erik]

It sounds like an alternative for passing a URL to a chat session, with the advantage that you could share web pages that require a log in.

But you might want to be careful about which web pages you share this way?

[resonious → be_erik]

Right it felt pretty bad. It chugs tons of tokens just to be like "I need to scroll up!". Then 5 seconds later it scrolls up, chugs more tokens. "I need to scroll up more!"

[nextworddev → be_erik]

It’s for Google to gain complete control of the context whereever you are on the Internet

[jama211 → nextworddev]

Google would control everything if they could, but this won’t achieve that and they know that so it’s not the specific intention of this. Even if you’re feeling doomerish about it.

[nextworddev → jama211]

Ok dude

[mFixman → be_erik]

My theory is that Google wants to bake Gemini into Chrome to preempt a future antitrust ruling ordering them to spin the browser out, for the same reason Microsoft made IE an integral part of Windows 98.

[bearjaws → mFixman]

Don't have to worry about scraping rules when your end users ship all the data to you "to ask questions".

That is why every AI company is making a browser.