Mozilla announces more AI in Firefox, still failing to understand that at this point their market share is made of tech savvy people who do not want that.
Mozilla, please. Stop chasing the fads. Get your own values.
People use Firefox to get access to an open web, use a sturdy browser, and not to be tracked. Build in that direction and that direction only.
Nobody from your current user base will recommend Firefox with AI to their friends.
blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/ai…
Introducing AI, the Firefox way: A look at what we're working on and how you can help shape it
AI Window is a user-controlled space we’re building in Firefox that lets you chat with an AI assistant and get help while you browse.Kristina Bravo (The Mozilla Blog)
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in reply to Thib • • •I'm no fan of LLMs certainly but as long as AI is kept optional in Firefox I won't abandon it. I may even be tempted to examine their options to see if they are really different.
I already use some photo editing tools (particularly object removal) that are marketed as AI and have discovered AltTexty (alttexty.org/) which is honestly quite amazing.
None of this justifies the waste of water and energy to power LLM hallucination machines.
AltTexty - Alt Text Generator
alttexty.orgThib
in reply to Thib • • •Mozilla sprouted Rust and Servo. They can do cool things that make the world a better place, even if it takes more work to extract a marketing argument for an investor brochure.
It's frustrating to see Mozilla dig its own hole of irrelevancy.
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