Rich people seem to have kind of obsession about the ai. It MUST be stuffed into every single thing for some reason, no matter if its detrimental or not. I wonder if its because if the ai thing fails, it means trillions might evaporate.
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imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
I really fail to se what Firefox is trying to do.
There is a sizeable amount of people who wish to stay off chromium and avoid AI entirely. Not like FF has a major % of userbase in the internet. They could’ve cater to those people by evading AI entirely and probably would gain much bigger user base by doing that. Spread of word and all. Why would they go the opposite way and stray even more people away from their already tiny core users? Doesn’t make sense to me. Did they pair with OpenAI or any other AI company who paid them monnies to be brainless idiots?
reksas@sopuli.xyz 22 hours ago
drspectr@lemmy.world 1 day ago
They just got a new CEO that is likely a tech bro that wants to follow Microsoft into the abyss.
Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Its as curtain as death
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
And Texas
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 day ago
or google into the abyss, since google is also all in for AI for the most part.
Digit@lemmy.wtf 1 day ago
… what Firefox is trying to do.
Milk a bubble.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 day ago
google fundinmozilla, probably had a hand in it too.
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
so die off the exact same way netscape did, in the process learning absolutely nothing
Kissaki@feddit.org 1 day ago
They fear falling behind other browsers and losing users because of it.
They see AI prevalence and see it as an opportunity to profile and position Mozilla as a leader in “ethical ai”.
They see AI use cases and success and think they have to integrate it to have additional, useful, significant features.
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
I begin to believe that we are here in our own bubble. Most lemmy users are against AI implementation. One can see tons of news articles that state that AI implementation failed in many businesses. According to many here, they either expect AI bubble to burst soon or believe that it will do so in near future. Literally everyone would say that putting AI in firefox is a terrible idea that will stray more users off the browser.
If they fear losing user base by not implementing AI, I doubt they are deaf to all the tiny community they have. That is 100% not the “fear” of missing out. That is very likely money grab that was paid by major AI company(ies). They cant be so much blind that they would destroy their community just to not to miss out on AI craze (that also likely already had passed).
This is money. But money hunger will ruin Mozilla
bampop@lemmy.world 1 day ago
What seems really off to me is that Firefox has one standout feature that people really love: extensions. You can customize your browser however you want. So it makes sense that if they wanted to integrate AI into their design that it should be done via extensions. They could produce a mozilla-approved pack of extensions which add whatever AI features they want to offer. That way any AI functionality is opt-in, and transparent in the sense that you have a specific feature set for each extension so you kind-of know what you’re buying into, rather than having a built-in set of opt-out features that are ill-defined and constantly changing. Such a radical and unnecessary change of their whole design philosophy seems very suspect to me.