OpenAI’s new Atlas web browser wants to let you “chat with a page”

MacOS version launches today, includes Agent Mode preview to "use the Internet for you."

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[Frodo Douchebaggins]

Spoiler: Moderation - this is a bit too vulgar and graphic tbh

I'd rather put a glass cocktail stirrer into my urethra and drop a kettlebell on my dick.

 

[poke 532810]

“an amazing tool for vibe life-ing”

 

[DaveSimmons]

The sad thing is this might not be much worse than the AI- and ad-infested decayed wreck of Google Chrome, especially with more than half the searchable web content now being AI slop.

 

[jacs]

Wondering what kind of impact this will have on a website's resources. Will it be like using a "normal" browser or will it require more resources on the server side (more traffic from this new browser to d it's "thing"?).

 

[MrSmith]

What if I want to browser websites which are sanctioned by OpenAIs models? Such as "adult entertainment" or torrents. I know no one really ever visits these, just a theoretical question. Is it going to pretend they don't exist? Stop me from visiting? Or can the agent search the best clip fit for my... tastes on pornhub?

 

[haydenmuhl]

The last thing I want is for ChatGPT to have access to my logged in web sessions.

 

[GlockenspielHero]

It does not bode well that the download page for the browser just about killed my (admittedly Intel but 24GB RAM) iMac. So much slidy text and animation that all of them went to slideshow mode before I closed the tab

 

[Sarty]

So much shit has been thrown at the wall that I think OpenAI may have inadvertently developed the heretofore-only-in-physics-experiment-land frictionless surface.

Hurry up and fucking croak already.

 

[squid_whisperer]

Another product to further erode the quality of the internet by removing traffic from websites that rely on it. Wonderful.

 

[Tundrok]

I'm really tired of seeing these AI slop browser agents. Not once have I seen one work even moderately well. You can smell the desperation

 

[atomic.banjo]

Sure, I’d use a browser from a company that says it will call the cops on you.

/s, obvs

 

[MrMcLargeHuge]

Instacart and AI demos, name a more iconic duo.

 

[Xyler]

The curiosity in me wants to try something like this.

The practical side of me is like "Nah".

 

[educated_foo]

What if we created Robot God? nothing happens

Well, how about if we just replaced all your costly white collar employees? doesn't work

How about porn? Or maybe a web browser? Anything? silence

The desperation is astounding.

 

[Ubersoldat19]

So it's Google Chrome but with an OpenAI plugin? I guess I was expecting more, but ok.

Using the OpenAI agent to add groceries to a shopping list is hilarious because it doesn't really save time - it's literally hijacking your device while it does the work (thus preventing you from using the device). Not to mention that I usually want to choose what I'm paying money for.

I know you have to crawl before you can walk, but holy shit does this look frivolous.

 

[TinCoyote]

You'd have to be bone-fuckin'-stupid or just not give a shit about privacy to use a browser or browser extension from an AI company. Yes, that includes Google Chrome itself.

 

[itfa]

So this is why my GPU is costing so much? Good grief.

 

[Uncivil Servant]

An agent that follows you around? Are there any women on the Board of Directors at OpenAI? Oh, right, Sam Altman forced all of the remaining women off of the board in his last little power struggle.

Anyone surprised by the boys clubhouse level of thought that they have put into this hideous mix of copium and vaporware deserves to lose everything when the bubble crashes.

And dear lord, how does this announcement not pop the bubble? You've created a web browser whose big new thing is that it will click on websites without the user's input?

 

[sirpogo]

Ewwwww... but why?

 

[sirpogo]

I'd rather put a glass cocktail stirrer into my urethra and drop a kettlebell on my dick.

I think those are the types of websites you want to avoid while using this browser.

 

[DarthSlack]

It also means you can bring up a “side chat” next to your current page and ask questions that rely on the context of that specific page.

As part of my job, sometimes I have to access data stored in restricted areas. Nothing classified, but it can be considered PII or sometimes PHI. Which means that I have to make all sorts of pledges not to share that data with someone who hasn't been approved for the same project.

So now, all you have to do is use the OpenAI browser and you've automatically violated every single condition of your access approval. Yeah, that's useful.

 

[Fatesrider]

It does not bode well that the download page for the browser just about killed my (admittedly Intel but 24GB RAM) iMac. So much slidy text and animation that all of them went to slideshow mode before I closed the tab

Consider the source:

They've invested large fractions of a trillion dollars into their Gizmo. Their Gizmo has no widespread appeal. There is no "must have" "killer app" for AI. It's a curiosity that provides some (arguably) marginal aid to some niche occupations and specialties, in addition to a lot of poking around and FOMO investigation. They are DESPERATE to figure out how to make money with it.

And this isn't it.

I mean, sure, they'll bombard you with ads, hoping to rake in indirect revenue to feed their beast and keep it alive. That's PLAINLY clear to see by this nonsense. What's also plainly clear to see is that effort will tank. Badly. People seem to have more loyalty to their browsers than they do their significant others these days. And AI isn't being embraced by the public at large - which is precisely the target audience they NEED to discover that niche application that turns into a must-have.

More VC funding pissed out a window...

I'm still hoping this balloon pops soon. The hysteria from that sector is beyond a fever pitch, and heading toward spontaneous combustion.

I see THAT as a good thing.

 

[Sprigganmaster]

As a dev, I’m already judging vibe coding. I guess I need to add “vibe life-ing” to my list now.

 

[Sarty]

I mean, sure, they'll bombard you with ads, hoping to rake in indirect revenue to feed their beast and keep it alive. That's PLAINLY clear to see by this nonsense. What's also plainly clear to see is that effort will tank. Badly. People seem to have more loyalty to their browsers than they do their significant others these days. And AI isn't being embraced by the public at large - which is precisely the target audience they NEED to discover that niche application that turns into a must-have.

What's funny is, even if it didn't, the N+1th web browser is not a trillion dollar industry. Even if they miraculously replaced Chrome on a one-for-one-user basis.

 

[Uncivil Servant]

As a dev, I’m already judging vibe coding. I guess I need to add “vibe life-ing” to my list now.

In fairness, you have to admit that "Vibe Life-ing" sounds like the name of a string of Snoop Dogg-branded corporate retreats...

 

[Anti Jimmy]

During the livestream, the OpenAI team said that Atlas has features that web users have come to expect from a browser: tabs, bookmarks, and auto-fill among them. But the integration with ChatGPT now means that “chat comes with you everywhere” in the browsing experience.

Great. So now I need a restraining order to keep this AI trash away?

 

[TROPtastic]

An agent that follows you around? Are there any women on the Board of Directors at OpenAI? Oh, right, Sam Altman forced all of the remaining women off of the board in his last little power struggle.

Anyone surprised by the boys clubhouse level of thought that they have put into this hideous mix of copium and vaporware deserves to lose everything when the bubble crashes.

This is from the CEO who proudly shared the capability to generate fake security footage showing people stealing, as if it was nothing more than a joke. Altman is evidently surrounded by too many yes men.

 

[lolnova]

Browsers I currently use on at least a weekly basis for work and/or play:

Firefox
Firefox (as a Linux Mint Web App or whatever it's called)
Firefox ESR
Librefox
Tor Browser
Vivaldi
Chromium
UnGoogled Chromium
Firefox Android
Tor Browser Android
Brave Android
Cromite
"Browser" from LineageOS

Browsers I will never use:

OpenAI Atlas

 

[Lasbas]

The browser space desperately needs a "DeepSeek moment." No, not another AI-ified panapticon app for profit-driven data extraction, but an open-source challenger that's efficient and privacy-minded, without feeding all of our online lives to fuel the avaristic ambitions of BigTech's AI dreams.

 

[TheOldChevy]

AI is commoditizing. I hate to "see" it everywhere, but life is as it is and this technology is coming in all tools (or tools are blooming around it.

We will need to keep critical about everything that is proposed, check sources and recheck.

 

[lolnova]

So this is why my GPU is costing so much? Good grief.

Not just your GPU. The prices of all chips fabbed on current and leading-edge process nodes are climbing because these assholes have bought up all available fab capacity. Including memory, NAND, etc.

Just like you're paying to subsidize them with your electric bill and in some areas your water bill.

 

[TheThirdDictor]

Minor typo:

" Perplexity, which recently made a bold $34.5 billion bid for Chrome despite a total market valuation of just $14 million."

The valuation should be 14 billion, not million.

 

[mcm69]

The browser space desperately needs a "DeepSeek moment." No, not another AI-ified panapticon app for profit-driven data extraction, but an open-source challenger that's efficient and privacy-minded, without feeding all of our online lives to fuel the avaristic ambitions of BigTech's AI dreams.

We have that, it's called Firefox.

 

[kingjj]

MacOS version launches today, includes Agent Mode preview to “use the Internet for you.”

ctrl f + "In Russia, the internet uses you" = NOT found?

 

[chateauarusi]

Today, OpenAI announced the Atlas browser that it hopes will do something similar for its ChatGPT large language model, answering the question “What if I could chat with a browser?” as the OpenAI team put it.

What if I could blast boiling water up my nostrils and melt my sinuses?

What if I could remove my genitals with an angle grinder?

What if I could staple my ears to my head?

What if, indeed?

 

[BoCaro]

Is this Atlas browser a vehicle for advertisement in disguise?