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Haisfield: WebSim accurately generates external RSS feeds to fetch live news data

Rob Haisfield · This World Does Not Exist — Joscha Bach, Karan Malhotra, Rob Haisfield (WorldSim, WebSim, Liquid AI) · Apr 27, 2024 · at 51:16

Rob Haisfield, presenting WebSim on the Latent Space podcast, demonstrates how generated web pages connect to live web feeds despite LLM knowledge cutoffs.

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“It just hallucinated a correct RSS feed and brought that in to its into this, I guess, you know, this wasn't a part of its like context window or anything because it's just displaying this stuff.”

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The claim, plainly

WebSim can generate client-side AJAX code using correct RSS feed URLs to fetch and display live external news data outside Claude's context window.

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Assessment

Rob Haisfield's claim is verified. WebSim operates by generating standard HTML, CSS, and client-side JavaScript that executes directly within the user's browser runtime. Because the generated code runs client-side rather than within the LLM generation context, scripts invoking browser APIs (such as fetch() or XMLHttpRequest) can request external endpoints and render live dynamic data—such as public RSS or API feeds—outside Claude's static context window.

WebSim renders generated frontend code directly in the client's browser, allowing client-side JavaScript to invoke browser network APIs like fetch() and XMLHttpRequest outside the LLM context window.
Community applications and documentation from 2024 confirm WebSim's capability to generate client-side network requests that fetch and display external real-time data and feeds.

Checked against

[1] tomsguide.com [2] github.io [3] pikabu.ru [4] websim.com [5] websim.com [6] medium.com [7] css-tricks.com [8] corsfix.com

"fetch patching" "websim" "websim.ai" rss2json OR allorigins OR "cors" "Rob Haisfield" "WebSim" RSS websim ai external fetch WebSim ai client side fetch external data RSS websim ai external api fetch CORS "Rob Haisfield" "WebSim"

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Disclosure

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“Yeah, we're working on that.”

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