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Do AI Assistants Actually Render Your JavaScript when Grounding? We Put It to the Test
A test of 12 AI assistants found that most US models don't execute JavaScript when reading webpages. This means they only see raw HTML and can miss key content on modern sites. Researchers created pages where the real data appeared only after JS ran, and US assistants consistently returned fake placeholder values, while Chinese models and Mistral correctly executed the code and surfaced the real data. If important content isn't in the initial HTML, major assistants likely won't see it, and chatbot claims about what they can access aren't always reliable compared to server logs.
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