Why should I even care anymore? I no longer need to access random websites to find information since I can just ask the AIs.

Are you genuinely asking? To pay your taxes, order items online, access your bank account, log into your favorite AI service, there are very often CAPTCHAs involved. Try going a month with CAPTCHAs blocked in uBlock Origin, and you will find yourself unable to do many basic things.

Not saying this is any better, but IRS partnered with id.me to enforce ID + face recognition before you can log in to view your records. We are truly doomed.

Even besides services you might need to access, as pointed out in another response (e.g., banks, shops), how are you going to check the veracity and understand the context of the information you seek without going to the (possibly hallucinated!) sources? But I guess a lot of people who are into using AI like that just don't care.

Where do you think the AI gets this information?

They also need to browse the web, and are more likely to be blocked by these measures than humans

Strange analogy considering that RMS got to where he is precisely by finding nails to hit much, much more than occasionally, and much, much more than most hammers.

I think it hits perfectly. He espouses that almost every vendor everywhere is doing something immoral and it will inevitably be used against you. Eventually, some of these predictions come true enough for some part of his audiences.

I don't think you've made a point about his abilities. I do think you've restated his proclivities, which reinforces the basis for the quip.

This is particularly uncharitable to someone that saw around many corners and was articulate enough to warn us about them in advance.

There's a reason there's a subreddit called "Stallman Was Right", and it's not that he was shotgun blasting opinions and landed a few of them. It's because he has a systemic understanding of the incentives our system sets up and is able to project decades into the future about how those incentives will play out.

A nailgun hitting nails? This is going nowhere..

Much as a hammer tacker hits tacks internally, so a nailgun strikes the nails within itself.

well it drives nails, we've lost the plot!

I've tried them all but nothing so far beats the UX of Chrome.

Genuinely curious what makes you say that. Haven't used Chrome for a really long time and not once I've missed it.

It rewards Google with the advertiser's money, and the advertisers don't like paying for extremely low conversion rates.

People don't fall in love with rocks unless they're objectophiliacs, but even people who aren't objectophiliacs fall in love with AIs. All of that to say, there are different levels of anthropomorphization.

> is no longer possible for anyone to maintain neither with nor without LLMs.

That's what the Tech-Priests are for.

<INTERROGATIVE-HAVE YOU TRIED APPLYING INCENSE AND RECITING THE SACRED TECH LITANIES?>

> Free to start

Before I invest my time into something like this I'll need to know what it'll end up costing in the end. Perhaps it's just that "private previews" aren't for me. Good luck!

infosec would like a word...

which is the bare minimum that I hope people are doing , nothing about trusting a third party is any less or more secure.

there's always been an endless supply of open source projects, but I think you'd be hard pressed to find an open source replacement for this project

There are dozens or hundreds of sandbox projects and companies now. It's the new vector database / agent memory until people notice OCI can do most of this and is already widely adopted in industry.