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Strong AI smell, lots of mixed signals in the project's purported goals, half the site is broken if you click on links. I remember Midori as a light-weight open

Strong AI smell, lots of mixed signals in the project's purported goals, half the site is broken if you click on links. I remember Midori as a light-weight open-source browser. Is this a scam?

mnmalst 5mo ago
I was wondering the same. I definitely recognize the name but not from a Firefox fork, which this seems to be? Before it was a lightweight webkit browser. The original website[1][2] also doesn't work anymore and the wikipedia entry [3] still assumes it's a webkit browser. No idea what's going on. [1] https://www.midori-browser.org https://www.midori-browser.org [2] https://web.archive.org/web/20200630051854/https://www.midori-browser.org/ https://web.archive.org/web/20200630051854/https://www.midor... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midori_(web_browser) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midori_(web_browser)
- pamcake 5mo ago
  It transformed. Same name, different browser.
  - i_think_so 5mo ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Midori_%28web_browser%29&oldid=871474703&diff=850537914 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Midori_%28web_bro... > programming language = originally in [[C (programming language)|C]] & GTK2, rewritten completely in [[Vala (programming language)|Vala]] & GTK3<ref>{{cite web Very different browser.
drcongo 5mo ago
I'm intrigued by the repeated sentences - doesn't feel like a mistake an LLM would make, but also doesn't feel like a mistake a human would make so many times in a single article.
- O1111OOO 5mo ago
  > doesn't feel like a mistake an LLM would make I had AI misspell a (well-known) name on a query I made. I had misspelled it and a bunch of other things while typing in a hurry one day. I asked it why and (after "apologizing", sidestepping, etc..) it said it was trying to match my communications style. There are a whole bunch of reasons why that's bad, including supporting any misinformed views I might have on a topic just because it's trying to "connect" with me. It has also mimicked any frustration I might have with it (curse, exclamations) when it has wasted my time with bogus facts and sources that don't support the claims it has made. So if I occasionally use colorful language, it would respond the same way. I stop that behavior as soon as I see it. It just leads to a terrible chat (query) session.

Strong AI smell, lots of mixed signals in the project's purported goals, half the site is broken if you click on links. I remember Midori as a light-weight open-source browser. Is this a scam?

mnmalst 5mo ago

I was wondering the same. I definitely recognize the name but not from a Firefox fork, which this seems to be? Before it was a lightweight webkit browser. The original website[1][2] also doesn't work anymore and the wikipedia entry [3] still assumes it's a webkit browser. No idea what's going on. [1] https://www.midori-browser.org https://www.midori-browser.org [2] https://web.archive.org/web/20200630051854/https://www.midori-browser.org/ https://web.archive.org/web/20200630051854/https://www.midor... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midori_(web_browser) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midori_(web_browser)

pamcake 5mo ago
It transformed. Same name, different browser.
- i_think_so 5mo ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Midori_%28web_browser%29&oldid=871474703&diff=850537914 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Midori_%28web_bro... > programming language = originally in [[C (programming language)|C]] & GTK2, rewritten completely in [[Vala (programming language)|Vala]] & GTK3<ref>{{cite web Very different browser.

drcongo 5mo ago

I'm intrigued by the repeated sentences - doesn't feel like a mistake an LLM would make, but also doesn't feel like a mistake a human would make so many times in a single article.

O1111OOO 5mo ago
> doesn't feel like a mistake an LLM would make I had AI misspell a (well-known) name on a query I made. I had misspelled it and a bunch of other things while typing in a hurry one day. I asked it why and (after "apologizing", sidestepping, etc..) it said it was trying to match my communications style. There are a whole bunch of reasons why that's bad, including supporting any misinformed views I might have on a topic just because it's trying to "connect" with me. It has also mimicked any frustration I might have with it (curse, exclamations) when it has wasted my time with bogus facts and sources that don't support the claims it has made. So if I occasionally use colorful language, it would respond the same way. I stop that behavior as soon as I see it. It just leads to a terrible chat (query) session.