“ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web”

So why would such an inferior experience be positioned as the most premium part of this new browser? It stands to reason it's because this is the most strategically important goal of the company creating the product. Their robots need humans to guide them around the gates that are quickly being erected around the open web, and if they can use that to keep their eyes on everything the humans are doing at the same time, so much the better. The "agent" story really only works in one direction, and that direction is anti-web.

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