Comment on Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs
Ulrich@feddit.org 2 days agoJust because if it were opt-in, people wouldn’t have chosen to activate it
Because people overwhelmingly do not change any defaults whatsoever, regardless of what they like or want.
dsilverz@calckey.world 2 days ago
@Ulrich@feddit.org @technology@lemmy.world
Most roosters wouldn't normally seek the paws of the fox to be hugged by, what an astonishing news!You see, that's exactly what plays favorably for things pushed with "opt-out" mechanisms, anything. If people are less likely to change the settings to better enhance their UX (be it due to a lack of knowledge, a lack of proactive pursuit or because they deem their current settings "good enough"), this means people would be more likely to have the clankers shoved down their throats if said clankers were to be part of default settings.
In fact, if settings would very likely go unchanged, then Mozilla could push anything, absolutely anything under they will, "shall be the whole of the Law" with the legally-required "opt-out" mechanisms in place.
In the foreseeable future, we'd have Firefox as a new "Agentic Browser" where a clanker does all the tiring and utterly boring effort of "browsing the web" as the user watches their credit card being depleted by prompt injections carefully placed amidst Unicode exploits across the web by scammers. But, hey, let us not worry, there's always a button to turn it off! 😄
Ulrich@feddit.org 2 days ago
Whoosh. The point is “the roosters” don’t seek anything at all. It could be 50 lbs. of cow shit, but if you don’t put it down in front of them, they’re not going to go looking for it.
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