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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.

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TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
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.

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- Ledivin@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Hahahahahaha, he thinks none of this data will be sold 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 it’s literally the only reason to spend all this money developing it
  
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- fluxx@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  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.
  
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Orygin@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Nobody wanted AI as a feature

This is false, you don’t speak for everybody and represent a small vocal minority of users.

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- fluxx@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Are you then a part of a vocal majority? Have you personally asked or been asked by Mozilla about AI features? What features are you exactly missing? See, I’m not against AI, but I am against needless, brainless hype following AI. I use AI, almost daily. But I’m not missing any of the features in the browser. Hell, most of the time, I’m using chatgpt from the browser. That’s all I need and dont exactly have an idea what more I would need? OCR a page? Extract an image? That all could fit in an extension, which I claim almost no one would use. What does AI browser even mean? I don’t speak for everyone but it doesn’t mean I don’t have at least an intuition that these are all empty words and that almost no one has asked for an “AI browser”. And of those that did, I’m not sure they know what they mean by that, other than general curiosity about what an AI browser might look like, likely directly influenced by the hype, themselves.
  
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