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[–] [email protected] 53 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Yea... That's a "No" from me dawg...

I have a very bad feeling it will start to harvest your local data...

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I'm trying to reconcile anonymous and you must use our app.

I know there's nothing explicitly deanonymizing about their browser... And the browser has built-in tor support... It just doesn't feel anonymous when it's restricted to a specific application.. because the application must identify itself somehow.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 9 months ago

Brave is a really shady company. I don't trust them any more than the others.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 9 months ago

Yeah, "anonymous" and "secure" aren't words I associate with Brave...

[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Idk brave has alot of trust me bro vibes

And that's kind of off putting And I used to be hard on the brave train

But now I'm with the more recent trend of "Chrome -> Brave -> Firefox" pipeline

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

And the homophobia

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

why is chrome first if you don't mind me asking, I am curious, I have always concidered chrome to be a less private brave and Firefox to be at the top of the list in terms of privacy, unless the list was going fron least to greatest

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

No, they first were a Chrome user then turned to Brave before finding firefox

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I think it's like a train, they went from Chrome to Brave to Firefox

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago

If the free version is there to encourage you to use the premium version, how can it be anonymous?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So they're using Claude for the premium tier? How do they know that none of that data is being collected by Anthropic? They have no control over it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

They said anonymous, not that they would record everything

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

“Anonymous and secure”

Lmao.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Just a reminder that services charging a monthly fee do not automatically mean they're private. Anyways, just use venus chub ai instead 🤫

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

It you want images, there is also civitai.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

is it as locked down and censored as Bing and CGPT are?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Bing image creator literally flagged "Ronald McDonald" as an unsafe image prompt lmao

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I have Photoshop with the generative AI options.

It's almost impossible to get it to work with anything peach to brown shaded, because it (presumably) thinks I'm doing something NSFW.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Well Ronald is a clown after all. John Wayne Gacy was just the tip of the iceberg you know, haven't you heard about the term "clown world" before?

Wake up sheeple, all our leaders are clowns with human makeup!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Hopefully not. Waiting for the update.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Brave

lol pass

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


The core features of Leo aren’t too dissimilar from other AI chatbots like Bing Chat and Google Bard: it can translate, answer questions, summarize webpages, and generate new content.

Brave says the benefits of Leo over those offerings are that it aligns with the company’s focus on privacy — conversations with the chatbot are not recorded or used to train AI models, and no login information is required to use it.

As with other AI chatbots, however, Brave claims Leo’s outputs should be “treated with care for potential inaccuracies or errors.”

For users who prefer to access a different AI language model, Brave is also introducing Leo Premium, a $15 monthly subscription that features Anthropic’s AI assistant, Claude Instant — a faster and cheaper version of Anthropic’s Claude 2 large language model.

“AI can be a powerful tool but it can also present growing concerns for data privacy and there’s a need for a privacy-first solution,” said Brian Bondy, CTO and co-founder of Brave, in a press release.

We have reached out to Brave to clarify when these additional benefits are expected to arrive and will update this story should we hear back.


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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

All they need now is to promise VR and self driving cars, and they'll have a hype-tech bingo.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Pushing "machine learning" as "beneficial AI" appears to be a ploy to build profiles of everyone using all the data that can possibly be gathered up about them. The claims will be for better ads and better experiences, but the reality will be something quite different.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I wonder when they get sued by Feedly, as their AI assistant is also called Leo...

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

What else to use on iPhone/IOS alternatives browser to avoid (block) YouTube ads?

Currently using Brave browser as it is one of the few that block ads and has the highly quality video (1080P-2160P).

But with all the mess that’s going on, I want to get away from it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yattee if you're willing to switch to a Piped account (requires some setup), I think there's jailbreaking stuff, Firefox Focus

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Thanks, I’ll look into it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I’m just using Safari with the Vinegar extension.