As if I needed yet another reason to not trust Brave. They keep jumping to each new shiny thing in tech, when they just need to keep to the core mission of a privacy-first browser.
Yeah, I've noticed a strange subset of companies who are eager to add the "big new thing" to their products every once in a while, no matter what the thing is or how it's relevant to their main business. While I haven't paid attention to Brave much, I've seen some other companies jumping on AI just after hopping off the NFT/Crypto train from a year or two ago - whenever I see that, it's almost guaranteed that they don't actually care about AI or have any experts working on it, but just want to seem all cool and up-to-date.
> The model behind Leo is Llama 2, a source-available large language model released by Meta with a special focus on safety. We’ve made sure that user inputs are always submitted anonymously through a reverse-proxy to our inference infrastructure. In this way, Brave can offer an AI experience with unparalleled privacy.
> We’ve specifically tuned the model prompt to adhere to Brave’s core values
Nobody records your IP when you confess your sins to a priest either. The things you say in these contexts are self-doxxing. Never trust AI privacy guarantees!
Especially from Brave. I like and use their mobile browser, but at one point their useragent had my fucking phone model imprinted in it (these days it only betrays that my phone is running Android 9). Their idea of "privacy" is a joke.
Great, so now I can tell it "Block all cookie prompts on all sites, disable all javascript, and if what I click on doesnt react as it should because of turned off javascript, run the javascript code behind the element just that one time." ? No? So what is the chatbot actually capable of, telling me what is the weather gonna be tomorrow? Is it also able to tell me what the weather was yesterday?
My point being that AI chatbot could be incredibly powerful system, if always weren't implemented in the most basic way.
It's disingenuous to market your product as privacy focused then put the onus on the user to actually make it private. You can do that with any browser. If you're just going to end up shaving the yak anyways why use Brave to begin with?
What’s not private about the ads. Brave uses a pretty ingenious way of serving targeted ads.
All the tracking is local on the device. The browser is sent an ad bundle. The browser chooses what ads to display, locally.
Also viewing ads to support the product is opt in, not opt out.
Is there some ethical gray area around an ad blocker funding itself by displaying different ads. Sure. Is it automatically anti-privacy to serve ads? I’m not so sure it is.
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[ 5.4 ms ] story [ 70.3 ms ] thread> We’ve specifically tuned the model prompt to adhere to Brave’s core values
I wonder what does this tuned version represent?
Especially from Brave. I like and use their mobile browser, but at one point their useragent had my fucking phone model imprinted in it (these days it only betrays that my phone is running Android 9). Their idea of "privacy" is a joke.
That was pretty standard among browsers a couple years ago.
[0] https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/9443
My point being that AI chatbot could be incredibly powerful system, if always weren't implemented in the most basic way.
Brave showed me ads the second day that I used it, and frankly im thankful that they showed who they were so quickly. I had been nearly fooled
As to your question: it depends on why they are jumping. If it is because a giant truck is going to run over us, I might join them, yes.
I am aware of a link hijacking thing but not displaying ads by Brave.
All the tracking is local on the device. The browser is sent an ad bundle. The browser chooses what ads to display, locally.
Also viewing ads to support the product is opt in, not opt out.
Is there some ethical gray area around an ad blocker funding itself by displaying different ads. Sure. Is it automatically anti-privacy to serve ads? I’m not so sure it is.