Untrusted chatbot AI between you & the internet is a disaster waiting to happen

Putting an untrusted layer of chatbot AI between you and the internet is an obvious disaster waiting to happen 2025-05-29 This is directly motivated by reading about the Browser Company’s pivot to Dia, a chatbot-centric browser, but there are many similar cases. I feel like this is obvious but I’m not hearing it shouted from the rooftops so here it is: adding an untrusted middleman to your information diet and all of your personal communications will eventually become a disaster that will be obvious in hindsight. You ask OpenAI for a product recommendation, and it recommends a product that they’re associated with, or one that a company is paying them to promote. Or maybe some company detects OpenAI’s web scraper and delivers customized content to win the recommendation. You just don’t know. This is obviously going to happen. Google promoted its own products in search. Amazon recommends its own products, eagerly ripping off the branding and terms used by other companies. Microsoft p ... Read full article.