OpenAI’s Atlas Is as Much of a Failure as Perplexity’s Comet
- Alc, The Cracker
- 5 hours ago
- 2 min read
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
What’s changed? Well, your browser now has AI built into it.
What’s stayed the same? Well, they’re both running on Chrome and you have even less freedom.
Your browser now has feelings, and if you hurt its feelings, it’s not going to do what you tell it to do.
Truly, this is a future. It’s not the future, but I guess anything goes at this point.
With both Atlas and Comet, you entrust even more of your browser habits and data to a company. You sacrifice some freedoms to solve very niche office drone tasks. For the common user, by the time you’re done figuring out the best prompt for a task, you could’ve just done what you wanted done.
I tried Perplexity’s Comet myself and asked it to take on a task on my behalf: reply to a bunch of comments pretending to be someone it’s not. The results were expected: complete and total LLM slop that lasted a few seconds before being reprimanded about “safety” until it shut down on its own.
So… what’s the point?
You’re probably wondering, "SNAP! What in the hell are you doing looking up videos of Hitler???"
Don’t be disingenuous, this isn’t the point. Point is, if you can do it with any browser, why would I be assed to use Atlas or Comet when it’s just going to throw an obstacle in my way?
It’s absurd. Completely unnecessary. It’s a corporate browser and deserves to rot accordingly. If a tool I’m using slaps my wrist for using it incorrectly, I’m throwing it in the incinerator where it rightfully belongs. No two ways about it.
AI companies are trying really hard to make it look like we’re living in the future, but when you actually get your hands on these things… nah, man. It’s sort of like back in the late 90’s, when they’d try to advertise these "highly advanced" androids, when all they were was pieces of junk held together by hopes, dreams and plastic.
