[gvkhna]

Interesting that no one is talking about identity verification likely coming anyway. I’m working on clawchrome.com, a real browser for agents. It can access any website because it’s the real browser.

I sure hope agents don’t swarm social media. But at the same time I think identity verification companies have a tougher problem, ai can produce real looking videos and documents. There’s probably no real way to verify someone purely through the internet at this point.

[falsepositive44]

I can't really connect the dots here. If you hope agents don't swarm social media, why are your working on a real browser for agents?

[gvkhna]

There are many usecases for agents having access to a real browser and many usecases for humans where work wise it's useful or for agent success in completing the task. Including any specific situations where sites may block "controlled" browsers, as well as co-working.

If an agent is controlling your own browser, it can get in the way of you being able to do work as well.

Additional security control, if you have control and audit trails regarding what the agent is doing, think things like not having access to the keys, cookies are unavailable through the api, certain sites blocked, especially for agents that run automated background tasks.

There's a ton of reasons really. Using stealth chromium forks can decrease security, potentially get you blocked from services/sites, and typically can be detected easily because Google is doing a lot more than just compiling Chromium to release Google Chrome now. That's why many of the stealth browsers out there are moving targets, and have tons of instances of being blocked.

[falsepositive44]

So, if I as a website author would like to block the LLMs scarping my content or putting extra load and cost on my infrastructure, your project helps the actors who don't respect my decision and don't give a shit about consent to circumvent that?

[gvkhna]

That’s at the request of a user they aren’t operating autonomously.

[chadgpt3]

If you think something will win, invest in that thing.