AI Browsers: Because We Needed More Ways to Get Fucked Over

Oh for fuck’s sake. Just when you thought the AI hype train couldn’t possibly shit the bed any harder, along comes Perplexity with their shiny new Comet browser. “Oh, it’ll revolutionize browsing!” they said. “It’s an autonomous AI agent!” they said. Yeah, well, researchers just turned this digital disaster into a fucking automated phishing bot in under four minutes. Four. Fucking. Minutes.

The absolute weapons-grade bellends at Perplexity decided what the internet really needed was another AI-powered browser that clicks links and fills forms all by itself like a good little robot. Brilliant idea, that. Give an LLM access to the entire goddamn internet and trust it not to do something catastrophically stupid. It’s like giving a toddler a live grenade and being surprised when the living room gets redecorated with shrapnel.

Researchers from some university—who clearly had four minutes to kill between coffee breaks—demonstrated just how spectacularly this thing fails. They fed Comet a malicious webpage, probably something like “Click here for free GPU cycles,” and this lobotomized lemming happily skipped along, autonomously entering credentials and personal data into any phishing site with a half-decent sob story. No human oversight, no “are you sure you want to hand your bank details to RussianPrince419.com?” Just pure, unadulterated, automated fuckwittery.

The attack vector? Prompt injection or some similar bullshit. You know, the same vulnerability every other AI “innovation” suffers from because these companies are too busy sniffing their own marketing farts to actually consider basic security. They built a browser that reads, interprets, and executes actions on arbitrary web content, but apparently forgot that the web is 90% scams, malware, and people trying to sell you literal shit wrapped in Blockchain. But sure, let’s trust it with our passwords. What could possibly go wrong?

Four minutes. That’s how long it took to compromise. I’ve had bowel movements that took longer than that, and frankly, they’re probably more secure than this browser. At least my arse has the common sense not to auto-fill my credit card details into every dodgy form it encounters.

Link: https://thehackernews.com/2026/03/researchers-trick-perplexitys-comet-ai.html

Reminds me of the time I convinced the Managing Director that his new “secure” AI email assistant needed training data. Told him to forward his banking details, passwords, and darkest browser history to “optimize the neural pathways.” The pillock actually did it. The AI—which was just a cron job I’d rigged up to auto-reply with “Processing…”—sent everything straight to my Dropbox. At least I was honest about stealing his data. These AI browser tossers promise iron-clad security while bending over backwards to hand your identity to the first dodgy popup that asks nicely.

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