The big deal is that development time is put into these… Uh… “features”.
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brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoMozilla might be the only company trying to provide privacy first AI features.
They are not. There are boatloads of privacy friendly “AI” implementations, they just aren’t very high profile.
But I do think people are over-reacting. This is a less bad approach. And if you can turn it off and leave it off, what’s the big deal?
Tattorack@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
4am@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Considering Windows is basically saying “we’re going to switch what we’ve always been and become an agenic OS, you will just talk to it and Microsoft Cloud will interpret your will (only $89 a month!)”, people are rightly scared about having all technology rug-pulled from under us.
Mozilla was one of the shining beacons of FOSS that allowed users choice and stability against corporate greed. Are you surprised that people are angry that they’re caving to the same toxic greedy behavior?
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No. They should be worried. It’s pretty clear Mozilla’s leadership has “AI fever” that every CEO seems to be going mad with.
Still though, people need to take a breath. This isn’t Microsoft. And Mozilla’s “local first” approach is quite interesting (even if the reality is that hardware isn’t ready for stuff outside of lightweight tasks).