Comment on "What Is Your Dream for Mozilla" - Mozilla is doing a survey, questions include "What is most important to you right now about technology and the internet?"

rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “Would you like to see us leverage AI to help address societal issues such as racial justice, climate justice, gender justice, etc.?”

  Absolutely fucking not.

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• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  There’s nothing wrong with using an LLM for offline private language translation. It literally preserves privacy by not simply sending all that data to a Google translation server.

  There’s nothing wrong with using offline image recognition to aid in helping blind people know what’s on their screen.

  As for their “advertising” - you should look up what they actually did. It completely preserves privacy while at the same time not completely destroying the economic model that content creators rely on. It’s a good thing. With any luck, regulators will enforce it.

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  • rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    My question is, who asked?

    I have many opinions about machine learning and its current position in technology, but expressed none of it in the comment. In case you missed it, the point I was trying to make is that this is a bullshit survey with obviously loaded questions and foregone conclusions.

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    • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What do you mean who asked? People were complaining about lack of proper translation in Firefox for a long time. People were definitely asking.

      And if you’ve ever used or seen someone use a screen reader on websites, you’ll know it’s awful. So Mozilla are right to focus on making the web better for blind people.

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      • rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Nice strawman, bro. I never said a damn thing about screen readers or translators, good or bad. And yes, I’ve read and filled out the entire survey. It doesn’t become a good survey just because it’s biased towards your personal views.

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• douglasg14b@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Found the person who only reads headlines!

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  • rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Nice assumption, dingus. I filled out the survey and sent it in before even writing that comment.

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• 7dev7random7@suppo.fi ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Well, you have the option to elaborate otherwise. Huge effort to normalize this survey.

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