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

• 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨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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      • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Good thing it’s open source and we’ll immediately see that they aren’t doing the thing you’re claiming.

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      • mirshafie@europe.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        No, you don’t have to trust anything. It’s open source, you can read the code.

        And if you’re feeling paranoid, you can compile it yourself.

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  • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No

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