allisonSep 9, 2025
i love living in the future, in which i have to hold my web browser very gingerly so it doesn't replace the thing i'm reading with the carbon farts of a stochastic white supremacy machine https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/shake-to-summarize/
On Firefox for iOS, summarize a page with a shake or a tap | The Mozilla Blog

On mobile, browsing often means quick checks on small screens, squeezed in between everything else you’re doing. We built Shake to Summarize on iOS to gi

Show threadKinky KoboldsSep 10, 2025
@aparrish
Why do they have such a hard on for AI when the absence of AI features is a selling point to many of those willing to consider an alternative browser?
Show threadallisonSep 10, 2025
@KinkyKobolds this is the best explanation i've read for why anyone who is monetarily backed by the tech industry is feeling pressured to include generative models in everything https://gauthierroussilhe.com/en/articles/how-to-use-computing-power-faster
How to use computing power faster: on the weird economics of semiconductors and GenAI | Gauthier Roussilhe

On the economics of the semiconductor industry and its new variations with GenAI development.

Show threadAndrocat

@aparrish @KinkyKobolds

I recently saw this article in Wired about a research team using some sort of LLM nonsense to generate research ideas.

And it was painfully obvious (to me, at least) that what they had gotten from the "tool" was just abject random garbage.

And that they had sort of squinted at it to "find" something they wanted to do anyway, and then they praised it, and said "Wow, such a far-fetched idea, we really couldn't have done it without [LLM nonsense]"

A sort of modern prostitution.

Sep 10, 2025 at 11:16amWeb