Brave Browser has an AI assistant chat now (opens in new tab)

That is one major problem with conversational interfaces: their abilities are opaque.

Yeah, I've noticed a strange subset of companies who are eager to add the "big new thing" to their products every once in a while, no matter what the thing is or how it's relevant to their main business. While I haven't paid attention to Brave much, I've seen some other companies jumping on AI just after hopping off the NFT/Crypto train from a year or two ago - whenever I see that, it's almost guaranteed that they don't actually care about AI or have any experts working on it, but just want to seem all cool and up-to-date.

"But it's opt in! Just! don't use it!" --every Brave stan, ever

(assumption) because their product is not appealing to a wide audience. the result? "let's add this feature to get [X hyped tech] users"

I think it's brave

Hopefully the prompt gets leaked soon enough. It's probably just generic "be helpful" with maybe a dash of "buy crypto, there are no other browsers".

To be fair to Brave, Firefox hasn't implemented this either.

Is any adblocker perfect? The default setting in Brave is not the highest setting you can set it to.

As to your question: it depends on why they are jumping. If it is because a giant truck is going to run over us, I might join them, yes.

Brave on Android sent me ads as notifications with no discernible way to turn them off.

Nobody records your IP when you confess your sins to a priest either. The things you say in these contexts are self-doxxing. Never trust AI privacy guarantees!

Especially from Brave. I like and use their mobile browser, but at one point their useragent had my fucking phone model imprinted in it (these days it only betrays that my phone is running Android 9). Their idea of "privacy" is a joke.