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by notachatbot123 39 days ago
Strong AI smell, lots of mixed signals in the project's purported goals, half the site is broken if you click on links. I remember Midori as a light-weight open-source browser. Is this a scam?
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I was wondering the same. I definitely recognize the name but not from a Firefox fork, which this seems to be? Before it was a lightweight webkit browser. The original website[1][2] also doesn't work anymore and the wikipedia entry [3] still assumes it's a webkit browser.

No idea what's going on.

[1] https://www.midori-browser.org

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20200630051854/https://www.midor...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midori_(web_browser)

It transformed. Same name, different browser.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Midori_%28web_bro...

> programming language = originally in [[C (programming language)|C]] & GTK2, rewritten completely in [[Vala (programming language)|Vala]] & GTK3<ref>{{cite web

Very different browser.

I'm intrigued by the repeated sentences - doesn't feel like a mistake an LLM would make, but also doesn't feel like a mistake a human would make so many times in a single article.
> doesn't feel like a mistake an LLM would make

I had AI misspell a (well-known) name on a query I made. I had misspelled it and a bunch of other things while typing in a hurry one day. I asked it why and (after "apologizing", sidestepping, etc..) it said it was trying to match my communications style.

There are a whole bunch of reasons why that's bad, including supporting any misinformed views I might have on a topic just because it's trying to "connect" with me.

It has also mimicked any frustration I might have with it (curse, exclamations) when it has wasted my time with bogus facts and sources that don't support the claims it has made. So if I occasionally use colorful language, it would respond the same way.

I stop that behavior as soon as I see it. It just leads to a terrible chat (query) session.