{"id":6177,"date":"2025-10-23T21:07:28","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T21:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/openai-atlas-web-browser-messy\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T21:07:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T21:07:28","slug":"openai-atlas-web-browser-messy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/openai-atlas-web-browser-messy\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI\u2019s New AI Web Browser Is a Bit of Mess"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Earlier this week, OpenAI unveiled<\/a> an AI browser, dubbed Atlas, which is built around its blockbuster AI product, ChatGPT.<\/p>\n

\u201cA browser built with ChatGPT takes us closer to a true super-assistant that understands your world and helps you achieve your goals,\u201d the company boasted in its announcement. <\/p>\n

Thanks to an \u201cagent mode,\u201d the browser can complete entire tasks, such as booking flights or buying groceries online, a process OpenAI engineers quickly dubbed \u201cvibe lifing<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not the first time an AI company has attempted to shoehorn AI chatbot functionality into a web browser. Atlas joins the likes of AI startup Perplexity\u2019s Comet and Google\u2019s AI model Gemini, which it\u2019s baked into<\/a> its ever-popular Chrome browser.<\/p>\n

But given early adopters\u2019 experience with the new tool so far, OpenAI has its work cut out to justify the existence of its newfangled browser \u2014 and that\u2019s not to mention the glaring cybersecurity concerns<\/a> <\/strong>experts have highlighted.<\/p>\n

And for a company that\u2019s planning to spend over $1 trillion<\/a> in the next year to build out enormous data centers to support its AI operations, it\u2019s not exactly a confidence-inducing product launch. As The Verge<\/em> reports<\/a>, Atlas\u2019 functionality leaves a lot to be desired.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe immediately obvious problem is that ChatGPT simply doesn\u2019t feel like an adequate portal to the web,\u201d wrote the site\u2019s Emma Roth, who took the browser for an early spin.<\/p>\n

For one thing, ChatGPT\u2019s suggestions \u201caren\u2019t always relevant.\u201d Roth recounts being provided several search results, including local news that weren\u2019t actually local to her.<\/p>\n

OpenAI appears to be aware of how confined this basic functionality is \u2014 by making it easy for users to revert to a far more familiar method of searching the web.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe limited search experience is probably why ChatGPT Atlas includes a link to Google in the top-right corner of each search results page,\u201d Roth quipped.<\/p>\n

Other users found that Atlas is heavily restricting many websites, including the New York Times<\/em><\/a> and online banking portals<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Overall, the experience appears almost indistinguishable from similar offerings, which doesn\u2019t bode well. The browser itself is built on Google\u2019s Chromium, an open-source browser project used by a wide swathe of browser companies, including Opera, Arc, and Brave.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s basically a ChatGPT-flavored version of Gemini in Chrome and Perplexity\u2019s AI assistant in Comet, and after a bit of early testing, seems to work about as well,\u201d Roth wrote.<\/p>\n

Worst of all, its flagship \u201cagentic mode,\u201d intended to complete entire workflows without interruption, is painfully slow.<\/p>\n

Roth asked it to \u201cfill up my Amazon cart with items based on my recent browsing history,\u201d which took an agonizing \u201cten minutes to add just three items.\u201d<\/p>\n

Comet completed the same task in just two minutes \u2014 which, for the record, also feels way too slow.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt times, Atlas struggled with clicking the correct button; it was like watching my toddler feed himself \u2014 inefficient but ultimately successful,\u201d Wall Street Journal<\/em> columnist Nicole Nguyen wrote<\/a> in a write-up about AI browsers. It took 16 minutes for Atlas to \u201cfind flights for a coming trip,\u201d for instance.<\/p>\n

Besides an underwhelming user experience, experts have warned of glaring cybersecurity concerns plaguing the crop of AI browsers. Just this week, web browser company Brave outlined major security flaws with Comet<\/a>, noting how easily it falls prey to \u201cprompt injections,\u201d allowing hackers to deliver hidden messages to an AI to carry out harmful instructions.<\/p>\n

How OpenAI will address the issue with its Atlas browser remains to be seen.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere will always be some residual risks around prompt injections because that\u2019s just the nature of systems that interpret natural language and execute actions,\u201d UCL Interaction Center assistant professor George Chalhoub told Fortune<\/em><\/a>. \u201cIn the security world, it\u2019s a bit of a cat-and-mouse game, so we can expect to see other vulnerabilities emerge.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe main risk is that it collapses the boundary between the data and the instructions: it could turn an AI agent in a browser from a helpful tool to a potential attack vector against the user,\u201d he added. \u201cSo it can go and extract all of your emails and steal your personal data from work, or it can log into your Facebook account and steal your messages, or extract all of your passwords, so you\u2019ve given the agent unfiltered access to all of your accounts.\u201d<\/p>\n

Atlas is only the beginning. The browser is an early step in OpenAI\u2019s larger ambitions to build out an entire operating system<\/a>. Earlier this month, the company introduced apps in ChatGPT<\/a> and an \u201cApps SDK,\u201d which allows developers to build their own apps \u2014 including \u201cmature\u201d ones<\/a> \u2014 using the chatbot.<\/p>\n

More on Atlas:<\/strong> OpenAI Announces Browser-Based AI Agent for \u201cVibe Lifing\u201d<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The post OpenAI\u2019s New AI Web Browser Is a Bit of Mess<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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