What is the appropriate response to an AI website builder? If it works well, that sounds pretty nice.
Mozilla announces their new AI website builder, community reacts appropriately
Submitted 11 months ago by LWD@lemm.ee to technology@lemmy.world
https://mozilla.social/@mozilla/111574114141420027
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BombOmOm@lemmy.world 11 months ago
LWD@lemm.ee 11 months ago
[deleted]TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m sorry but this is daft.
Mozilla is dying. Asking their tiny and dwindling user base what they think Mozilla should invest in will not save them.
I don’t know if getting into AI will, but just following whatever absolutely tiny minority of their already tiny 2% of the web browser market share that bothers to fill out a survey won’t help them.
Even_Adder@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
So the answer this time is not building open source AI?
LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one 11 months ago
I’d love something like this.
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 11 months ago
People shitting on it for free, as if Mozilla introduced the concept of generated websites (which don’t really need AI, btw), or as if the average Wordpress site was any better.
LWD@lemm.ee 11 months ago
[deleted]Mahlzeit@feddit.de 11 months ago
Can I ask why this is important to you? Did you donate and don’t like how your money is used?
greybeard@lemmy.one 11 months ago
Most websites are cookie cutter garbage anyways. I see noproblems with cutting out the middle men of people who know his to fill out a template and install WordPress plugins.
Actually goodandd unique websites will still require design and programming work.
aodhsishaj@lemmy.world 11 months ago
What kind of keyboard do you use by chance?
greybeard@lemmy.one 11 months ago
Ha, I was typing on my phone, using OpenBoard, it really sucks at accidental b’s instead of spaces.
alienanimals@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Eezyville@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Lmao! I didn’t know we had the internet in the 1900s
alienanimals@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You might also not know that we’ve had cameras since 1816
grayman@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah… Focus on the browser. Nothing else matters.
Engywuck@lemm.ee 11 months ago
LOL, people on that thread don’t seem very happy.
Blackdoomax@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I just tested it, i like their fake reviews section xD
ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 11 months ago
I guess I feel bad for website template designers (e.g. Wordpress)? They’re the many target audience for these sorts of very imprecise, black box tools.
thesmokingman@programming.dev 10 months ago
Do you feel bad for the data centers that virtual clouds replaced? Do you feel bad for the sysadmins virtual private servers replaced? Do you feel bad for the webmasters WordPress replaced?
Note it’s totally possible to feel bad for all these folks and the template designers. My point is not whataboutism, it’s just that things that sell well as internet services have been changing constantly since the late nineties.
ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 10 months ago
Sure, why not.
Heresy_generator@kbin.social 11 months ago
Wow, what a wonderful innovation for the SEO spam websites industry.
loxo@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Appropriately? Not a single comment on that post gives any good reason why they’re butthurt.
LWD@lemm.ee 11 months ago
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
The first is not just wrong, but also dumb.
It’s wrong because anything this website builder can make, an existing template system would be able to do with admittedly more work. No designer needed.
It’s dumb because this is the argument used for literally anything that makes things easier for the layman. Would you rather we live without refrigerators so the milkman has a job? 🤦🏻♂️
The second is an ongoing argument with any AI model. And while it brings up a good point, it’s really just the same argument but with “freelancer” and “developer” instead of “artist” or “author.”
And the third is just… someone complaining in a non specific way that is both oddly condescending, while also ignoring the fact that companies (and people) can work on more than one thing. Shocking.
If these weren’t opinions, I’d say they were wrong. I mean, they are wrong to be clear, but I won’t say it.
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 11 months ago
that’s what happens when a social platform doesn’t have negative feedback (downvotes)
Sabata11792@kbin.social 11 months ago
This video goes into detail.
Youtube
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 11 months ago
lmao
LWD@lemm.ee 11 months ago
LWD@lemm.ee 11 months ago
DarkThoughts@kbin.social 11 months ago
Those are stupid and I doubt any web developer wrote these. Unless they were also scared about WYSIWYG editors 25+ years ago.
Patch@feddit.uk 11 months ago
“The steam loom is going to put weavers out of work, industrialization is a double edged sword and needs to be carefully considered”.
This is the same complaint made about literally every single AI programme. It’s not necessarily invalid, but if Mozilla doesn’t move into this space plenty of other competitors still will.
Mozilla is allowed to do more than one thing.
LWD@lemm.ee 11 months ago
quo@feddit.uk 11 months ago
Bizarroland@kbin.social 11 months ago
I would say one potential upside for this is that it would be somewhat shocking for mozilla's AI website builder to not build websites that work with Firefox.
Apparently a lot of developers are relying on Chrome only JavaScript packages and that is what is breaking several of the websites that I go to for Firefox.