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

• EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I think the big defining question is what will the AI features that they will implement do exactly and how will they run. If it’s something that runs in the background (even as unintrusive as the summaries on a search engine like DDG), then it’s opt out by default as it’s constantly running whether you want it to or not. If it specifically and exclusively runs when you hit the button to activate it and doesn’t run at any other time, then I’d say it’s unequivocally opt in. And regardless of what a company says that their software will do, at this point I won’t believe it until somebody has done a full teardown and discerned what exactly it does behind the scenes. I’ve seen enough nonsense like the Epic Games Store accessing your browser history and recording keyboard inputs or whatever the other absurd incident was.

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• yeahiknow3@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Nah, I think it should be optional. Some AI features may even be useful — like an AI script to get rid of AI slop or something, idk.

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• xvapx@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  In my opinion there is no ambiguity at all.
  Opt-in means that the feature is disabled by default and until the user enables it. This is NOT what Firefox will be doing.
  Opt-out means that the feature is enabled by default and can be disabled by the user. This is what Firefox will be doing.
  Whether the user actually uses or not the feature is not a factor in determining if it is opt-in or opt-out.

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  • Orygin@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So if you never press the AI button, it’s never enabled. It is opt-in in the strictest semantic sense.

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    • xvapx@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s obviously not what enabled means, at all.

      If there is a button visible that executes a function when receiving a click, that feature is enabled.
      That does not mean that the feature is actively in use, of course. Enabled and active are different states for a program’s functionality to be.

      I believe it’s pretty easy to understand, there are people like me who don’t want to have AI functions popping up in our browsers without explicit enabling on our part.
      I understand that you disagree, but it is not a difficult position to understand.

      You don’t need to re-define opt-in and opt-out just because you support Mozilla in adding AI features to Firefox.

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      • Orygin@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        And you can take approximately 3 seconds to click on the kill switch if you so desperately need not to see an AI button somewhere.
        Like I can understand (and I agree) the stance on AI in general, but this is just a knee jerk reaction. Your browsing experience is 99.9% unchanged even if there is a button somewhere…

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