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Comment by isp

4 years ago

> edit3: really trying to get it to be a web browser for me

I'm having the most success with "w3m".

e.g.,

> w3m bbc.co.uk

Which (for me) gives output that would have been plausible news stories in approximately mid-2020.

ahahahah, brilliant!!

     w3m www.aichatbotnews.com/search?q=cautionary%20tales

     www.aichatbotnews.com
                            AI Chatbot News

     Search Results for: cautionary tales

     No results found for your search.

     Please try again with different keywords.

Yeah you WOULD say that, robot!

w3m www.reddit.com/r/burningman

this gives back an empty subreddit, but the subreddit description is accurate for burning man. This is really incredible.

I could curl the BBC RSS feed, which gave me a feed for Dec 2020. The stories were plausible and whilst the URLs looked realistic, they didn't actually exit.