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tea@lemmy.today 5 days agoWhat is it actively doing now with AI? There is the ai sidebar, but if you don’t use that it isn’t used, right?
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. 😬
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.
I think there’s some alt-text generation for websites that don’t have proper accessibility, though not certain if it’s released yet
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 5 days 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.