While web browsers warm to AI services, holdouts remain
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"LLMs are essentially confident-sounding lying machines with a penchant to occasionally disclose private data or plagiarize existing work," Julien Picalausa said. "While they do this, they also use vast amounts of energy and are happy using all the GPUs you can throw at them, which is a problem we've seen before in the field of cryptocurrencies."
Vivaldi CEO Jon von Tetzchner remarked, "When we ask our users whether they want AI, the answer is a pretty clear no. The users do not see the value and neither do we. We are also concerned about this leading to more data collection and user profiling. AI is in many ways the next step in the surveillance economy and we would rather see things reversed there."
"But when it comes to building it into the browser, it becomes another way to watch what you are doing and build a profile, locally or in the cloud," Von Tetzchner explained, underlining the security concerns associated with AI integration into browsers.
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