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

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• 2910000@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  For the record a quick web search for how to disable AI in firefox gave me this list of items to set to false in about:config :

  browser.ml.enable
  browser.ml.chat.enabled
  browser.ml.chat.sidebar
  browser.ml.chat.shortcuts
  browser.ml.chat.page.footerBadge
  browser.ml.chat.page.menuBadge
  browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled
  browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled
  extensions.ml.enabled
  

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  • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I don’t think you need to set all to false, all except the first look like granular settings

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    • Nalivai@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If you only disable the first one, the points in menu are still there, so I don’t know what exactly does it do but not that. At least it was like that last time I tried to get rid of this annoying shit.

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      • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        did you restart firefox before checking? most prefs are not checked after start up

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    • 2910000@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I might never get around to flipping whatever kill switch they claim to be working on, so I’m turning off as much as I can now

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• tea@lemmy.today ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What is it actively doing now with AI? There is the ai sidebar, but if you don’t use that it isn’t used, right?

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  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I think the biggest issue people have with it is if you can’t trust a company not to shill AI then you also can’t trust them not to train it on you.

    It’s just a bottom line trust issue, regardless of actual features or capability.

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  • meejle@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There’s the slow-and-not-very-capable link preview thing… and I could’ve sworn the “what’s new” thing the other day said they were adding an on-device model to improve search results or something, but I can’t find the reference to it now.

    Maybe they removed it after all the AI backlash. 😬

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  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Alt-text generation for screen readers (amazing feature)

    Private, offline translation (amazing feature)

    Chatbot sidebar (I have very little use for it, but some may like it)

    All of these are opt-in.

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  • xor@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I think there’s some alt-text generation for websites that don’t have proper accessibility, though not certain if it’s released yet

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