Brave just released their own privacy-preserving AI assistant named Leo. : technology

[–] ZombieZookeeper@lemmy.world 55 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm supposed to trust BRAVE with privacy? Did I receive a massive head injury and not realize it?

[–] DarkThoughts@kbin.social 26 points 1 year ago

Shady browser from a shady company.

[+] roadkill@kbin.social 26 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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[–] ZILtoid1991@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Also likely its dataset was trained on stolen user data.

[–] MahatmaGandhalf@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

Exactly. AI and privacy don't fit in the same sentence.

[–] Rooki@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

https://lemmy.world/post/1510069

[–] magic_lobster_party@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Wow, that’s worse than I thought. What a shitty company. Glad I made the right judgement when they went all in on cryptocurrency bullshit.

[–] GigglyBobble@kbin.social -5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Your quote is worthless, that summary doesn't give any reason what's problematic about the browser.

It's also unfortunate that the article's author chose to start with politics - I prefer technical reasons to stop using technical tools.

The crypto bullshit and injection of affiliate codes to URLs are indeed problematic. However, to me that just says to stay vigilant when using Brave but it's still not as bad as Chrome.

Personally I use Firefox anyway but unfortunately, webdevs get lazier every year and only test Chromium browsers and sometimes some stupid website doesn't work correctly on Firefox. If it's something like an airline checkout I need a fallback browser and today that's Brave.

[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

In the comments: crypto bros and privacy nerds have the same shit fight they always have in every brave post. I honestly don't think anyone even uses this browser and likely never will.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 0 points 1 year ago

I use it for YouTube and spotify because the ad block works. Firefox i had some sites that wouldn't work with the extensions I have running

[–] hellfire103@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

...Aaaand I'm officially tossing the browser. AI has it's place, and that is not embedded in every fucking program I use.

[–] OfficerBribe@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How is Brave covering cost of this thing?

[–] Chozo@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Probably with the money they made secretly redirecting users to their own referral links when visiting crypto websites.

[–] Shizu@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

There is a paid subscription tier of the brave search which certainly is used to partitially fund this project. Other than that. Brave also serves ads in their search results for free users. Those however are not based on your profile but are based on your current search (similar how DuckDuckGo and Startpage are handling their ads).

[–] FatCat@lemmy.world -4 points 1 year ago

Blog post from Brave: https://brave.com/leo-release/

[–] ooli@lemmy.world -5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

sorry you got downvoted by mob mentality. Thanks for sharing

[–] BlinkerFluid@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, they're scummy but you're right. There's no reason to downvote news. OP isn't advertising.

[–] Rooki@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

OP advertised it in my opinion. Because he didnt talked about it. Just posted a pic and small text.

[–] HKayn@dormi.zone 0 points 1 year ago

If I were to post a link to a Google Chrome "What's New" post and say nothing else, would I also be advertising?

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