Has anyone built the AI web browser yet? The one that redraws any image you might find offensive, rewords advertisements, and rephrases comments to be positive?
Startup idea #72831: Build "Nostalgia" browser which uses AI to convert every page to Web 1.0, complete with "Under Construction" banners and CGI visitor counters.
> The one that redraws any image you might find offensive, rewords advertisements, and rephrases comments to be positive?
You're kidding but I've already toyed with using AI models to analyze browsers' screenshots and determining if it's likely phishing or not and it works very well.
> […] I've already toyed with using AI models to analyze browsers' screenshots and determining if it's likely phishing or not and it works very well.
Assuming the AI is comparing screenshots of real versus phishing, it can only figure it out for poorly done phishing websites.
As phishing scams get more sophisticated with scam websites that look exactly like the real ones, the only things that truly matter are protocols (i.e., HTTP versus HTTPS), domains, URL’s, certificates, etc.
Very interesting, I'm working on exactly the same problem from a couple different angles, but I'm not having much luck. I have negligible background in AI/ML or computer vision however, so I'm most certainly Holding it Wrong (TM). My general approach has been trying to generate embeddings using smaller models like MobileNet and ResNet (not trained or finetuned or anything) and using similarity metrics like Cosine distance, but there's too many false positives. If you can disclose it, would you be willing to expand on what has worked for you?
Unfortunately there is a very pertinent context to the concerns raised by that user:
Microsoft has invested in a startup that uses facial recognition to surveil Palestinians throughout the West Bank, in spite of the tech giant’s public pledge to avoid using the technology if it encroaches on democratic freedoms.
AnyVision, which is headquartered in Israel but has offices in the United States, the United Kingdom and Singapore, sells an “advanced tactical surveillance” software system, Better Tomorrow. It lets customers identify individuals and objects in any live camera feed, such as a security camera or a smartphone, and then track targets as they move between different feeds.
No. This is more similar to an ad blocker, but focused on helping Muslims respect their religious standards while they browse the web. I’m not a Muslim, but it makes perfect sense to me. Good for them—I see no problem with it.
> […] their right, but feels fishy regarding child right to truth.
I’m not sure what’s fishy about it. Parents have always controlled what their children should have access to and consume. The entire concept of “parental controls” exists for this reason—we’ve always understood a parent’s rights over their children and none of that was at all controversial until like 5 minutes ago.
This is a digression anyway, so I’ll just stop there…
> Yes, let's encourage gender divides and backwards thinking.
I’m sorry that everyone in the world doesn’t think the way you’d like them to.
I know lots of Muslims, both male and female, and they’re perfectly normal to me. In fact, some of them are some of the most wholesome folks I know: Humble and hardworking humans who build and love their families, and of course, believe in something much greater than themselves. I see nothing “backwards” about that.
just dont seem to produce much art ,innovation and working institutions in any region they are culturally dominant. and when asked why that is digress fast into antisemitism and conspiracy babble.
"Guys, I am just pleased as punch to inform you that there are two thermo-nuclear missiles headed this way... if you don't mind, I'm gonna go ahead and take evasive action." -- Eddie, the Shipboard Computer (Douglas Adams)
Hah. It is still early morning so I let my mind run wild for a while. I am not aware of any public facing projects that do that, but in my minds eye I saw polymorphic browser adjusting its code to meet the new AI web that is constantly in flux.
You want privacy? It stamps out any attempts at fingerprinting by attempting to be the most common browser (and config) out there, it spoofs any and all identifying data, it redraws pages without paywalls, without cookie notices and puts all pages in simple text output mode removing all other ads in the process, but keeps pictures for fora that use them.
You want 1984? It won't let you see anything that is not approved by the party.
Onwards, to our glorious future.
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Valuemaxx edition. Store pages with discounts have bruteforced discounts found and added for maximum value.
It already is crazy. I can't even begin to imagine it being more crazy.
True, but to be fair this isn’t Google being ideological. They’re just responding to customer signals that customers prefer content to be shaped. If there was more CLV in one-size-fits-all search results, Google would do that.
There’s an argument that Google should not cater to our preferences, but I don’t think I buy it.