Comment on Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox
normalexit@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I hate that they are laying people off. I do however want to use some machine learning powered adblock, for those harder to block ads, otherwise I don’t feel like every app needs an AI assistant. It’s bad for the Internet generally and for the power grid.
laughterlaughter@lemmy.world 8 months ago
In theory, that sounds amazing.
In practice, it will most likely need to send the contents of your browser to some third-party server. No, thanks.
(Unless it’s crowdsourced, like the first person to visit a page gets dinged, but then the next persons just downloads the set of rules instead of uploading content.)
abruptly8951@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Privacy preserving federated learning is a thing - essentially you train a local model and send the weight updates back to Google rather than the data itself…but also it’s early days so who knows what vulnerabilities may exist
laughterlaughter@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Oh interesting!