Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux

• mirshafie@europe.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Not sure what you mean by “will it operate in the background”? The current (and planned) features collect no data. The “operate” when you use them. Disabling them will remove them from the UI.

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  • Ininewcrow@piefed.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    lol …. so they won’t change how they function … just remove them from sight

    out of sight, out of mind, right?

    Whenever I trust big corporations … or even big organizations with a lot of power in their hands … it’s never usually good for common people like me and you.

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    • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      No, they won’t be used at all, and will be hidden from view, if turned off.

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    • Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s an open source browser.

      The publicly available code is the most verifiable system of trust you’ll find.

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• ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What he wrote doesn’t seem ambiguous on this at all. But we’ll see.

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  • fodor@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So you agree that it will be baked in and impossible to actually turn off. Yep.

    Otherwise, they would have made it an extension, right? If it’s optional, it needs to actually be optional … that’s what am extension is. That’s the whole point of them.

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    • Serinus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You can not push the button that says AI.

      You can also hit the kill switch that completely removes that button.

      That’s opt-in enough.

      If it starts reading pages or doing things without you pushing a button, that’s an issue.

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      • EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        If it starts reading pages or doing things without you pushing a button, that’s an issue.

        And therein lies the rub. The question is whether or not people trust that it won’t be doing that regardless of whether or not you hit the kill switch.

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    • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      No

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