Google says Chrome's new AI creates risks only more AI can fix

Google plans to add a second Gemini-based model to Chrome to address the security problems created by adding the first Gemini model to Chrome. In September, Google added a Gemini-powered chat window to its browser and promised the software would soon gain agentic capabilities that allow it to interact with browser controls and …

[Pulled Tea]

Google plans to add a second Gemini-based model to Chrome to address the security problems created by adding the first Gemini model to Chrome.

There was an old woman who swallowed a fly…

[breakfast]

There was an old woman who swallowed AI.

[Ken Shabby]

I think she’ll die.

[An_Old_Dog]

Using AI to Moderate AI

It's turtles all the way down!

[Red Ted]

Re: Using AI to Moderate AI

...until you get the the great A'Tuin?

[Snowy]

How

Do it turn it off!!

[Dan 55]

Re: How

Install Vivaldi or install Firefox and use about:config to disable a few features.

[Ian Johnston]

Re: How

Firefox is riddled with AI crap - which is probably why it's so slow - and they make it intentionally difficult to disable. You have to play whack-a-mole all over about:config to block it.

[DS999]

Re: How

There's a simple solution, or at least will be if someone out there decides to provide it.

Create an extension that disables all the AI stuff, and is updated to disable any new AI stuff that gets added. Bonus points if it has switches for all that stuff in its UI so that in case you want to enable or two specific ones you can (plus it would be informative to know what all there is and what it is supposed to do)

Maybe this already exists and I'm just not aware of it, but I looked for one a couple months ago and didn't find it.

[xanadu42]

So to fix a "known" "AI" security issue you add a second "AI" to fix the first...

And add another "AI" vector for security issues

The logical conclusion to this is that when the second "AI" doesn't solve all of the first "AI" security issues (and adds its own security issues) you add a third...

Then a fourth or fifth?

Why not just remove the new "AI" feature until ALL its issues have been addressed?

Can't have that!! The Browser MUST have "AI"...

[cd]

Exactly the model of modern Pharma, fix side-effects with another product.

[MyffyW]

Alas there is a degree of truth, @CD.

In fairness to Pharma, there is regulatory oversight of their medicines. And serious investor scrutiny of the product pipeline. AI - not a jot.

[Anonymous Coward]

Indeed. With pharma, you have to prove both safety and efficacy before you can get approval to sell it.

At least until a couple years ago.

[DS999]

When you get a 4th or 5th AI

It might make sense to have an AI to watch over them all, and be responsible for all the direct interaction with the end user. We could call it "Mother".

[BartyFartsLast]

Or, hear me out, step off the bullshit bingo treadmill and remove it completely for an all round better user experience.

[Juha Meriluoto]

Sounds like an "if (x==2) x=4;" kind of a fix. Works, until x really should be 2, then add a second more complicated condition, then another one...

[Zolko]

Circularity

Allowing error-prone AI models to browse the web

????????? why would an AI browse the web at all ? Honestly, what would be the point of it ? With or without errors, why on Earth would I allow my computer to browse the web when I'm not in front of it ??????

[MyffyW]

Re: Circularity

Coming up next: Why we should be giving matches and cans of petrol to the under-fives.

[nobody who matters]

This is a bit like trying to heal the injuries someone has sustained in a car crash by crashing another car into them.

One would expect those involved in creating sophisticated computer systems and software to be significantly more intelligent than the rest of us, but some of them repeatedly give an impression of having no intelligence at all.

[Anonymous Coward]

'AI' all the way down !!!

"... some of them repeatedly give an impression of having no intelligence at all"

This is, of course, true ... they have swallowed their own 'dog food' and are now 'sure' that 'AI' will do anything they can think of !!!

This is also complicated by the fact that if they admit that 'AI' does not work they will be out of a job !!!

For the salaries being earned it is a difficult ask to admit failure when trying a little bit harder 'might' work ... so we have 'AI' moderating 'AI' moderating 'AI' [Recurse here for a while] which is protected by 'guardrails' that are 'Rules' crafted by hand to catch the things that sl[oi]p though the 'AI' cascade !!!???

What could possibly go wrong ???

See the News at 11, each day, for the latest variations on a bad idea !!!

:)

[rockpile99]

I know an old lady who swallowed a fly ...

Reminds of the nursery rhyme and I'm sure the end results will be the same. (just spotted somebody else has said the same - apologies for accidental comment theft)

This is genius from Google - they can just keep adding AI's (all in the name of user security) and when your computer needs 120Gb of RAM just to run Chrome it's a win for hardware vendors too.

[Pussifer]

I told you!

https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2025/03/20/chatgpt_accuses_man_of_murdering/#c_5040679

It's AI all the way down - and here it is!

[druck]

As any pet owner knows

The best way to clean up after you pet has shit all over the carpet, is to dump even more shit over the top.

No? Well...

[MyffyW]

Re: As any pet owner knows

If the cat shits on the mat, get a cow with constipation and feed it laxative

[b1k3rdude]

more self serving, delusional and halucinational slop...

[rgjnk]

Don't assume it will work

Google seem quite capable of utterly breaking their AI with updates. Like (for example) from one week to the next moving it from having lots of context/conversation memory to having total amnesia between prompts.

Lots of jokers in the AI realm pretending they know what they're doing and Google have joined the rest in hiring them.

So if they're proposing AI to fix AI I have some doubts...

[Rich 2]

WTAF?

You really couldn’t make this shit up.

Were the human species to survive another hundred years, someone would be making a historical tech sitcom with ludicrous and improbable storylines involving AI and blockchains and enshitification of once decent products