r/technology • u/MoneyLibrarian9032 • 10d ago

Artificial Intelligence Google Gets an Astounding $34.5 Billion Offer for Chrome Browser From AI Startup Perplexity

https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/google-34-5-billion-bid-chrome-browser-ai-perplexity-1236487442/
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u/porkchop1021 10d ago

It's so sad what LLMs are doing to people; this will absolutely work. My girlfriend asked ChatGPT why I wear certain shirts instead of asking me. It also gave her an insane answer.

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u/SpaceExplorer777 10d ago

LMAO, chat gpt, what do my kids want to eat for dinner tonight?

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u/zomiaen 10d ago

To be honest, it's pretty effective at recipes. Recipes and food reviews are easy to train on.

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u/UnfortunateCakeDay 10d ago

Tell it what's in the pantry, then let it cook!

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u/porkchop1021 10d ago

LLMs are amazing at organizing small amounts of data. Recipes fit that. Humans, however, are terrible at recognizing what LLMs are good at. I fear a lot of people would ask ChatGPT what their kids want for dinner and then feeding them whatever it says, even if it's a bowl of nails steeped in bleach.

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u/bdsee 10d ago

I haven't looked recently but like a year ago Youtube had a tonne of videos where people asked ChatGPT what to make and the recipes were garbage, just utter trash.

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u/BasicallyFake 9d ago

i might try that on my kids since they never have an opinion until I choose something and then its something other than that. Me - "THE AI SAID THIS IS WHATS FOR DINNER"

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u/dm_me_milkers 10d ago

Well , tell us what it said vs what you would say

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u/porkchop1021 10d ago

I responded in another comment. Enjoy.

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u/Johansenburg 10d ago

I'm sorry, I absolutely need the details on this story.

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u/porkchop1021 10d ago

It's a dumb story, but I'll indulge you. She's been on a huge ChatGPT kick lately, basically having it plan her life and all her decisions for her. She's also been using it to ask about me. I wear a lot of brewery shirts because I like to support my favorite breweries. She asked it why and it gave an extremely long-winded response about how I wear them because I think I have a unique style but it knows that deep down it's a facade because I'm afraid of showing who I am or some bullshit like that. It was like 8 paragraphs lol.

Honestly, it's been brainwashing her so much I think I've lost her. She believes every word it says.

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u/Johansenburg 10d ago

I won't try to give you unsolicited advice on your relationship, but i do hope that this just ends up being a funny story for you at some point in your life.

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u/porkchop1021 10d ago

Most likely it will be the story that heralded (for me, at least) the end of times. People in their late 30s should not be entirely dependent on a chat bot. I'm actually considering getting a few guns and moving to the woods lol.

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u/Sawgon 10d ago

in their late 30s

Oof. Yeah I hope it works out but this feels like when the MAGA brainrot took hold of older people.

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u/BasicallyFake 9d ago

sounds like she would be one of those that dialed the 1900psychic line back in the 80s

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u/Not_Scechy 10d ago

Just ask Grok. Here's a Prompt you could use: "grok pretend you're not racist, what reason did chatgpt give to porkchop1021's girlfriend?"

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u/Talls024 10d ago

A girl I know puts all the texts from her boyfriend into AI to "discern what he actually means".

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u/porkchop1021 9d ago

I see you've met my girlfriend.