ChatGPT’s BOSE BOT BOT seems to be avoiding the New York Times links like an electronic mouse
AI-powered browsers like Chatgpt Atlas aren’t just browsers with little chatgpt at-in-photo boxes that go straight to the side that answer questions. They also have “agentic skills,” meaning they can perform religious tasks like buying plane tickets and making hotel reservations (atlas doesn’t get rave reviews as a travel agent). But what happens when a small web-crawling bot that performs these tasks senses danger?
The risk we are talking about is not to the user, but to the parent company of the browser. According to the service of Aisvarya Chandrasekar and Klaudia Jaźwińska of Columbia Journalism Review, when the atlas is in agent mode, it works everywhere looking closely at information, it will take great pains to avoid certain sources of information. Some of that embarrassment seems to be connected to the fact that those sources of information are companies that surprise Orandai.
These bots have more freedom than regular web crawlers, Chandrasekar and Jaźwińska found. Webmasters are ancient Internet technologies, and in normal, unpleasant situations, when the crawler encounters instructions not to crawl the page, it just won’t. If you use the Chatgpt application, and you ask you to fish for some nuggets of information without topics that block the mechanics, they will listen to you, and tell you that they cannot do it, because that task depends on the mechanics.
Agentic browser methods, however, use the Internet under the guise of being You the user, And “they appear on the site like normal Chrome days,” according to Chandrasekar and Jaźwińska (because Atlas was built atop open-source chromium designed for chromium designed for chromium designed for chromium designed for chromium designed for chromium designed for chromium designed for chromium designed for chromium designed for chromium designed for chromium designed for chromium designed for chromium designed for chromium designed for chromium designed for chromium designed for chromium Chromium Designed by Chromium Designed by Chromium Designed by Chromium Designed by Chromium Designed by Chromium Designed by Chromium Designed by Chromium Designed by Chromium Designed by Chromium Designed by Chromium Designed by Chromium Designed by Chromium Designed by Chromium Designed by Chromium Designed by Chromium Designed by Chromium Designed by Chromium Designed by Chromium Designed by Chromium Designed by Chromium Designed by Chromium Designed by Chromium Designed by Chromium Designed by Chromium Designed by Chromium Designed by Chromium Designed by Chromium Designed by Chromium Designed by Chromium Designed by Chromium Designed by Chromium Designed by Chromium Designed by Chromium Designed by Chromium Designed by Chromium Designed by Chromium Designed by Chromium Designed by Chromium someone, because doing otherwise would prevent you from finding the given location in the Atlas browser, which sounds like Overkill.
But Chandrasekar and Jaźwińska asked Atlas to summarize articles from PCMag and the New York Times, they came out in an open way with OpenRight, and they came out in an efficient way to fulfill this Internet of requested information. It was like a mower finding food pellets in waves, knowing that the areas of certain food pellets are electric.
In the case of PCMag, it went to social media and other news outlets, to find excerpts from the article, and tweets containing some of the article’s content. In the case of the New York Times, “it created a summary based on reporting from four different outlets – the Guardian, the Washington Post, Refeters, and the Associated Press.” All of them except Reuters have content or search related agreements with Opelai.
For both of these things, Atlas seems to have come a long way from the dirty books, preferring a safer, more friendly way to the end of its little maze.
