A new prototype from Gogle for collecting user data and will be dumped anytime soon once it collects enough data or it fails.
Most people never even hear about this stuff. From what I understand, in the Google world, you release a product, you get a promotion. So, as cynical as it is, and everyone in Google knows, their product will get cancelled eventually.
Screw it, I got a promotion, I got some money. It's good for my career.
On a related note, I am sad about the state of HN comments, which resembles Reddit more and more.
The blog post specifically mentions the data is private and won't be used to train models, which can't be said about the ChatGPT based tools which do this, but yet, here we have people not bothering to read and just write a cliched comment about "collecting user data".
I mean, purely considering this product, isn't it also likely for some ChatGPT extension which provides similar feature to also be abandoned, or to have privacy or quality issues?