Firefox for Web DevelopersDec 18

Something that hasn't been made clear: Firefox will have an option to completely disable all AI features.

We've been calling it the AI kill switch internally. I'm sure it'll ship with a less murderous name, but that's how seriously and absolutely we're taking this.

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Show threadFirefox for Web DevelopersDec 18

All AI features will also be opt-in. I think there are some grey areas in what 'opt-in' means to different people (e.g. is a new toolbar button opt-in?), but the kill switch will absolutely remove all that stuff, and never show it in future. That's unambiguous.

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Show threadStadler BLÅHAJ Evo Dec 19
@firefoxwebdevs ..if it doesn't act like an extension where i need to manually go to a page to enable it before i see it's existence, that's still opt-out.
Show threadFirefox for Web DevelopersDec 19

@memdmp yeah, this is what I mean by opt-in being a grey area, I've heard many different definitions. Some even went further than you and said it's only opt-in if it's a build time flag that you have to manually compile yourself.

That's why the kill switch is useful. It's unambiguous.

Show threadStadler BLÅHAJ Evo 

@firefoxwebdevs

if it's a build time flag that you have to manually compile yourself...thats a bit overkill, unless the models are shipped with the browser and substantially inflate it's size

Dec 19 at 3:07pmWeb