Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux
xvapx@lemmy.world 4 days agoIn 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.
Orygin@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
So if you never press the AI button, it’s never enabled. It is opt-in in the strictest semantic sense.
xvapx@lemmy.world 3 days 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.
Orygin@sh.itjust.works 2 days 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…