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vineyardmikeyesterday at 9:29 PM3 repliesview on HN

No.

Computer use (to anthropic, as in the article) is an LLM controlling a computer via a video feed of the display, and controlling it with the mouse and keyboard.


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dbbkyesterday at 10:06 PM

That sounds weird. Why does it need a video feed? The computer can already generate an accessibility tree, same as Playwright uses it for webpages.

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chasd00yesterday at 10:13 PM

> controlling a computer via a video feed of the display, and controlling it with the mouse and keyboard.

I guess that's one way to get around robots.txt. Claim that you would respect it but since the bot is not technically a crawler it doesn't apply. It's also an easier sell to not identify the bot in the user agent string because, hey, it's not a script, it's using the computer like a human would!

cowboylowrezyesterday at 9:55 PM

oh hell no haha maybe with THEIR login hahaha