nixCraft 🐧Firefox and Mozilla ignoring the core audience's desire to keep the browser free from LLM is not good news. Ignoring your biggest fans always ends up costing you. I'm just saying. On a related note, someone with engineering and money resources can build LLM-free dumb products, like home appliances, electric cars, etc., and easily make good financial fortunes. People are sick of this LLM and privacy issues. Please stop adding this nonsense to everything
x0@nixCraft I can think of two good uses for them, and entirely local at that, which they've already been doing. Machine translation and image description. As a *language* model, it might be really good at translation. Some of the big ones have proven to be, and I'm pretty sure firefox has already been shipping a translation model, so if they update the architecture to be better and do more languages locally? I'd use it. And as a blind person, I have to deal with the fact that firefox presents no feature for automatic image description, in fact I heard it was atempted and assholes shot it down in the issue comments. If I have to turn it on explicitly I don't mind, people who don't need it don't need the resource load and that's OK. Translation is optional, after all.