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Mozilla is now encouraging unattributed slop code in Firefox

https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/55683898

Mozilla is now encouraging unattributed slop code in Firefox - tchncs

Usually code contributions by various LLMs are easily identifiable because the agent is the author for the git commit. Mozilla on the other hand seem to be explicitly encourage unattributed LLM code in Firefox. Also note jakearchibald, Mozillas AI spin doctor whenever devs question their intentions, lying about the reasons for this change. I think their true intentions are to muddy the waters to hide the amount of slop contributions in Firefox.

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9tr6gyp3 Feb 27

This change is about preventing AI from trying to own the change. A human must own the change.

AI cannot own a Firefox contribution. AI cannot commit code to Firefox. Only a human may do that.

If a human uses AI (or autocomplete / a formatter / a transpiler / whatever else) to help them author code, that doesn’t devolve them of responsibility. The human must take ownership and responsibility for the output.

For example, if we later run git-blame on a section of the code, we want to see the human that took responsibility for the code, not some AI.

Firefox’s policy on AI code: firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/…/ai-coding.html

Firefox AI Coding Policy — Firefox Source Docs documentation

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DarkCloud

That’s good news! Thanks for looking into it.

Side note, Firefox now has AI settings you have to manually turn off on it’s settings.