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Gemini in Chrome can now see exactly what you’re looking at on screen (tech.yahoo.com)
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[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (11 children)

The headline seems a little inflammatory. It requires the user to explicitly select a region to share.

Google is making Gemini a lot more aware of what's happening inside Chrome. The company has started rolling out a new "Select from screen" feature that lets users highlight specific text or images from a webpage and send them directly to Gemini, making conversations with the AI assistant far more contextual.

[–] architect@thelemmy.club 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

No, it can definitely read the entire browser window, fill out and click through forms etc etc. i know, I’ve used it.

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That might be true, but it sounds like like a completely different feature than what the article is discussing. This is talking about a new feature that requires the user to select a specific section of the page in order to make it visible to the I'm LLM.

I am a little confused though, as to why this new feature would be needed if it could already read the entire screen.

[–] covert_llm@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

cant tell if serious

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