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I don’t think anyone actually read the announcement, just the headline. Here was the new CEOs actual first point.

“First: 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.”

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Dazed_Confused@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

AI should always be a choice — something people can easily turn ~~off~~ on. That’s how it should be.

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- Scrollone@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I despise AI. I don’t want it in my browser. If I want to use AI, I’ll go to Mistral or Claude.
  
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  - kami@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    You mean the same Claude from Anthropic? The same Anthropic working with Palantir?
    
    And then you are here shitting on Mozilla…
    
    You guys are a joke!
    
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  - Auth@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    So no text to voice/voice to text, no translation, no ocr, no summarization, no scam detection? These are useful ai features to have in a browser IMO.
    
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    Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Plugins exist. There is no excuse for bloat8ng the browser with these seldom used niche features by default, espexially when they represent 5% if what the AI component is doing and the other 95% are harmful to literally every living thing on the planet.
    
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- Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  It should read:
  
  AI should always be opt-in
  
  There was no easy way to turn it off without meddling with about:config. If they were serious and true to their word this would’ve been be the default from the start.
  
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cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
there is absolutely zero reason to put ai in firefox

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- scholar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Local ML translation was pretty cool
  
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  - kazerniel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    I like the convenience for languages I don’t speak, but when I checked it for Hungarian (that I do speak) the results are so much worse than Google Translate or DeepL, basically literal translation word-by-word, often completely losing the meaning and tone of the sentence.
    
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- drspectr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  exactly it should be a firefox extension, anyone can install if they want it.
  
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- TangledHyphae@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  It’d be nice if it integrated with my local ollama instance and let me pick which models I wanted to use on the fly with whatever part of the page I want.
  
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matlag@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
First, there should be a survey on what users actually want, no?

Because if no one wants AI and it’s “always a choice”, what you really do is waste considerable resources with as the only results, more settings users have to go through before starting using their browsers.

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bold_atlas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
By people he means CEOs.

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