@davidrevoy I actually like how Firefox has handled AI - small local models, no spying to train AI on my data. For users who insist on using a mainstream online chatbot, it lets them do it without forcing it on others. (And there are more such users than I thought. People who I thought are way too computer illiterate to use AI surprised me by using ChatGPT.)
Firefox lets me translate text locally without big tech spying on my translations. Is this bad because it happens to use neural networks?
@elgregor Yes, but Mozilla's long history of doing things that piss off its long-standing users and historical allies has to be taken into account.
They could have chosen not to lean into the buzzwords. They could have chosen to release these as extensions (there are probably halfway-decent technical reasons they didn't).
But no, they had their newest corporate dipshit come out and use the term "AI browser" to describe what they want Firefox to become. They woke up that day and yet again chose violence.
@bersl2 Mozilla has a history of being a target of pitchfork-and-torch crowds.
Making these extensions would only make sense if they were preinstalled, as the overwhelming majority of Firefox users don't install any extensions, not even a content blocker.
People are using "AI" as a buzzword, I even saw a literal shampoo use it. I do not believe in the fearmongering that Mozilla Firefox will become a data-stealing browser with user as the product, like OpenAI or Perplexity ones do.
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