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Even ChatGPT agrees its new browser will fail
In your comment on ChatGPT’s new browser Atlas (Issue 722, page 6) you said ‘Very few people will ever pay to browse the web’. Couldn’t agree more. Indeed, it occurred to me that ChatGPT might also agree, so I asked it. And it was even more emphatic than you: “Almost nobody’s going to pay to browse the web – especially when the normal web already works fine and browsers like Chrome, Edge and Firefox are free, fast and familiar. Most people don’t want an AI middleman between them and their favourite sites; they just want their tabs, bookmarks and search bar to work.”
I’m not against the idea of a ChatGPT browser. I certainly could do with an alternative to Chrome and Edge. But every tool in it has to be free. It would be eternally frustrating to start browsing and hop from site to site, only to have that browsing disturbed by constant requests for payment.
Mark Schofield
CA SAYS
We stand by our first impressions of Atlas. If OpenAI makes its best tools paid-for then it will only be used by a handful of AI obsessives in Silicon Valley. Almost everyone else will stick with the browser they currently use. We’ll take a closer look at Atlas when the Windows version arrives.
Computeractive
must stand up to AI dominance
In the UK we are increasingly coming under attack from scammers, and this is only going to increase with AI. Yet your publication seems to be going out of its way to praise AI. We need up-to-date advice on how best to protect ourselves and our families. At the moment, one in 10 people in the UK are being scammed with the help of AI. Within a year it will be one in five.