This used to be a filter to tell which of your friends and/or family were tech literate.

Remember when every piece of Window$ software back in the day tried to get you to add their browser bar to your web browser? I really thought that would be the peak of how awful browser add-ons could get. Guess I wasn’t dreaming big enough to imagine a boondoggle as utterly useless as an LLM integrated into a browser. I mean, I hated Clippy at the time, but never imagined anyone (even a marketing clown) would try to jam him into a web browser, and have him remember everything you did online so he could chat with you about it.

What an amazing idea to try to push users from reading articles to reading bullshit hallucinations of summaries of articles. AI really feels like the thing that’s pushing us to become the humans from Wall-E faster than any other invention right now.