Not commenting the Mozilla layoffs or new direction but I see my timeline going “Oh no Firefox will go full hype on AI”.

This is only due to the framing by Techcrunch: If you read the memo that partially leaked, there's no sign that Firefox will receive a massive influx of generative AI features.

When you say you don't want AI in your browser. Really, you don't want translation services or copy text from image? Not all AI is equal.

Have you reacted after only reading the title of the article?

What's Artificial Intelligence about those tasks? @anthony
@dozymoe @anthony "artificial intelligence" is a broad term that is applied to a lot of related technologies. Firefox Translations uses several of the technologies that usually end up under the "AI" moniker. You can read more about it here: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2022/06/training-efficient-neural-network-models-for-firefox-translations/
Training efficient neural network models for Firefox Translations – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog

The Firefox Translations web extension utilizes proceedings of project Bergamot and brings local translations to Firefox.

Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog

"AI is not a solution looking for the problem"

@gabrielesvelto @anthony