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by marricks 878 days ago
Seriously, their first example seems useless to most people. Naming a tab group??? That doesn't take any time, little thought, and who does that regularly?

Summarizing an article seems like something everyone else can do OK. It's a huge avenue for bias (maybe that's why it's reasonably elided) but at least it's actually useful.

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It's not just naming, but grouping as well. If you have 200 tabs and don't want to spend too much time on it, this can be very helpful.
How long until malicious pages fool this into placing themselves into, say, a banking tab group?
How would that affect the end user except they go into the banking tab group and go "Huh. This isn't a banking website" and close it?
Tab groups are a mental shortcut so you can spend less time figuring out the nature of the tab you're looking at or finding particular tabs.

If something automates their creation then there is absolutely an advantage to sites that can subvert the classification method, because users will start with the "banking site" expectation instead of no expectation at all.

Who has that many bank website tabs open? And that are still active, because of course bank websites log you out if you do nothing within a minute or two. And then create a tab group from those tabs, and then the bad actor correctly guesses which bank you use and has bypassed Safe Browsing (which also uses ML now) and you visit the tab and manually (because the password manager won't work) type in your credentials?

Worrying about this as a potential threat is on the same level as my bank "disabling" right click.

Replace banking with any other popular site. It was just an example.
There are already phishing websites which copy the look of the real website, and a user could easily mix the two up.
This is the only feature I'm excited about. I perpetually have 100+ tabs opened and have tried tab groups but eventually things get disorganized again. The ability to automatically group similar tabs, assuming it works, is going to be game changing.
To automatically group similar tabs I am using ToChunkA Smart TabS extension.
> Seriously, their first example seems useless to most people. Naming a tab group??? That doesn't take any time, little thought, and who does that regularly?

Funny, naming things, whether variables or groups of things is the main reason I use LLMs to date. Add in grouping as well and that handles something that puts me under a lot of cognitive load, because I can never shake the feeling I have ot yet manually grouped things optimally.

Maybe they are just testing AI with less used features first