Comment on Mozilla roll out first AI features in Firefox Nightly

cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• proti@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  yeah but AI bad no matter if it would be actually useful for once

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• orclev@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  That’s one of the things, but it’s also adding a dedicated sidebar for AI. That’s the sort of thing that should just be an extension, there’s absolutely no reason at all why that needs to be something built into the browser.

  Developers should be providing alt text themselves, but in cases where they aren’t having a local image recognition model running to provide a description isn’t terrible as long as it’s either 100% local or completely opt-in.

  The dedicated sidebar on the other hand feels very much like a cheap attempt to cash in on the AI fad.

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  • barsoap@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    That’s the sort of thing that should just be an extension

    It most likely is on the technical level, just shipped by default and integrated into standard settings instead of the add-on ones. And it’s going to be opt-in, so you won’t have to go into about:config to disable it. Speaking of: You’re looking for extensions.pocket.enabled, it should be false. And before you say “muh diskspace” it’s probably like 5k of js and css or such.

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• cheddar@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Those who have opted-in will have the option to access their preferred AI service from the Firefox sidebar to summarize information, simplify language, or test their knowledge, all without leaving their current web page.

  Our initial offering will include ChatGPT, Google Gemini, HuggingChat, and Le Chat Mistral

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• librejoe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I don’t care. I don’t want AI in my browser.

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  • essteeyou@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Nice for you, fuck blind people.

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    • kilgore_trout@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Blind people shouldn’t neet to give up their privacy to Microsoft and Google to have a web page read to them.

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      • essteeyou@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Let me just quote the top of this thread.

        people please actually read the article not the headline; this is literally about accessibility improvements for blind and visually impaired people for generating alt text inside of documents and pdfs.

        It doesn’t just read the page to them, which is a solved problem, it generates descriptions when they’re missing, making the web more accessible.

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  • themurphy@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Great take.

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  • original2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Ai ScArY!¡! And you haven’t ever used google translate?

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    • librejoe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      no. why the hell would I use google spyware crap?

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      • essteeyou@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Just curious, how do you translate things? I know Mozilla recently did some local translation stuff in-browser, but what about before? Is there a good competitor to Google Translate?

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    • kilgore_trout@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Some people care about privacy.

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• douglasg14b@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Now we just need accessibility tools for the cognitively impaired that can’t seem to read the damn article.

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• bamboo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Many of the people complaining about a feature they would just disable and never use are also the same kinds of people who would complain about basic accessibility features and call them “unnecessary bloat”.

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  • slackassassin@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Fuck brail bro

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Yeah, why do you think you can put bumps on my nice, flat screen. Entitles pieces of crap… :)

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