Super frustrating the AI Chatbots are infecting my Firefox browser now. It looks like malware and pretty much acts like it since it cannot be disabled from the sidebar outside of closing this window. I like vertical tabs, but they require so many other options by default. Even more frustrating that the URL goes to a chrome browser link: chrome://browser/content/genai/chat.html
Alarms very heightened.
I’m still wondering who is going to make the new and updated content for the AI to inaccurately return if it can’t be found using a search. Like if AI summaries replaced all the news sites, where would the AI get the news?
It seems like they took the approach of loading a ton of historical data without any forethought on how AI replacing search would kill the motivation to post anything new on the web at all.
Tech companies: Sounds like someone else’s problem LOL
Or realizing that sometimes you’re looking for something specific. I remembered an old website that described the seven major metropolises of Antarctica the other day and spent a month trying on and off to coax the result out of Google, which kept serving me results that only matched a few words from my search while Gemini tried alternately to educate me about how there were no real cities in Antarctica and to make up its own stories about imaginary cities there.
That problem is “down the stack” and not their concern