Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux
Jhex@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
clearly some damage control strategy here… but good news if true
Firefox just can’t win with their users.
It’s absurd.
No, it’s not. 1. Nobody wanted AI as a feature. 2. They didn’t even completely backpedal, that would be not implementing AI. This sounds like it will be opt out maybe. They may remove it if they feel like it.
Not implementing any AI is stupid.
I for one appreciate having offline, private language translation. Sending it to a Google Translate server is a privacy nightmare.
My sister appreciates the better screen-reader functionality.
Plenty of people do want AI features.
Hahahahahaha, he thinks none of this data will be sold 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 it’s literally the only reason to spend all this money developing it
Translation is already a part of Firefox and I don’t see too many have complained about this. It is also completely offline, AFAIK. What people are afraid, myself included is agentic AI capable of autonomous web browsing. That is a privacy and security nightmare, as is already demonstrated by openai’s browser, which was exploited the first day it was launched. Beyond translation, I personally am not interested in any other AI features. In fact, I don’t use the translation feature more than a few times a year.
In my books that comment was far from complainong about damage control.
Just a objective observation.
OP said that they are happy if true.
What have they decided based on market data?
I think in this particular case at least Mozilla decided to introduce something that their users didn’t want without asking, and our backpedaling and are being mocked for having done the thing in the first place.
Frankly I don’t know what’s going on in their collective brains. What Firefox needs more than anything else is refinement. There are no features that it’s missing as far as I can think of.
pointing something out is not shitting on them
This has been part of the news since the very beginning.
not quite like this… the original form was not a total kill switch, it was a vague “you are in control” (of this thing you didn’t ask for but we are activating for you by default)
Grabthar@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
The news of being able to use or disable all of the AI features was in the original announcement as well, but it was pretty clear that most of Lemmy just read the headline and leaned into it.
Jhex@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
not quite like this… the original form was not a total kill switch, it was a vague “you are in control” (of this thing you didn’t ask for but we are activating for you by default)