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Comment on It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser"
meejle@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Every product we build must give people agency in how it works. Privacy, data use, and AI must be clear and understandable. Controls must be simple. AI should always be a choice — something people can easily turn off. People should know why a feature works the way it does and what value they get from it.
Come on, this isn’t Reddit, at least skim the article before you start with the performative outrage.
douglasg14b@lemmy.world 2 days ago
selokichtli@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
It’s not needed. Nobody is looking for AI powered shit and they will feel it in their numbers. Why invest the pennies Mozilla can invest in a technology that big monsters are developing with billions and billions of dollars and natural resources? It’s not even reasonable, like a Pocket 2.0.
onehundredsixtynine@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
The problem is the AI being here in itself. It shouldn’t be in Firefox, or frankly any other software.
Also, corporations and their CEOs lie every day, you know.
communism@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Nobody’s saying it’s mandatory. People don’t want their web browsers to be full of bloated AI slop. Why should there be the AI components of Firefox on my hard drive if I’m never going to use them? Why should my web browser be full of low quality features I’ll never use? It’s enshittification. Not to mention the very quote you’re pasting specifies that it’s opt-out, not opt-in.
shalafi@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Few read the articles around here, like any social media. I could come with a headline that Bill Gates proposed using trans people’s brains for AI processing, Matrix style, and harvesting the water of the dead ones, a la Dune. Lemmy would eat it up.
unconfirmedsourcesDOTgov@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
But how could the trolls enrage well meaning people into moving to a less privacy respecting browser if the post wasn’t designed for performative outrage?
CatsGoMOW@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It should be something that people can easily turn ON.
korendian@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
It is opt in, this article is click bait.
Directly from the horses mouth:
"In Firefox, you’ll never be locked into one ecosystem or have AI forced into your browsing experience. You decide when, how or whether to use it at all. You’ve already seen this approach in action through some of our latest features like the AI chatbot in the sidebar for desktop or Shake to Summarize on iOS. "
blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/ai-window/
mushroommunk@lemmy.today 2 days ago
We’ll just ignore the fact that the chat bot menu setting randomly appeared after an update. Very opt in. The only way to kill the task it sparks is to go into about:config and kill all the browser.ml.* options.
No one here cares what Firefox says because their actions have already hurt the trust in them.
aloofPenguin@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Do the processes still run even if you toggle the setting off?
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
Except I literally had to dig through the about: config settings to turn off AI in my browsing experience. So they are already lying
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
I didn’t. So why is that?
douglasg14b@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Ah yes, the classic:
They must be maliciously lying instead of me using something wrong argument.
Very solid, much sound.
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Any articles can be a click bait. The reality is what matters.
I didnt turn on AI in Firefox myself. It just appeared there after an update and was turned on. It is not opt in but an opt out.