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Mozilla downsizes as it refocuses on Firefox and AI

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Re: Mozilla downsizes as it refocuses on Firefox and AI

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> Mozilla will focus on bringing “trustworthy AI into Firefox.” I hope they will give us ability to turn it off. Or at least LibreWolf will turn it off / remove it. I’d rather they add optional small subscription fee to support themselves if they have to than add AI or some other questionable functionalities.

And the ability to turn off whatever guardrails they put on it in an attempt to make it trustworthy.

Re: Mozilla downsizes as it refocuses on Firefox and AI

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post #11

> Mozilla will focus on bringing “trustworthy AI into Firefox.” I hope they will give us ability to turn it off. Or at least LibreWolf will turn it off / remove it. I’d rather they add optional small subscription fee to support themselves if they have to than add AI or some other questionable functionalities.

And the ability to turn off whatever guardrails they put on it in an attempt to make it trustworthy.

They seem to be inclined towards the idea of running language models on your own computer, given Mozilla released a cross-platform runtime for llama that can make use of either the CPU or GPU. So I won't be surprised if it's swappable.

Re: Mozilla downsizes as it refocuses on Firefox and AI

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post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And the ability to turn off whatever guardrails they put on it in an attempt to make it trustworthy.

They seem to be inclined towards the idea of running language models on your own computer, given Mozilla released a cross-platform runtime for llama that can make use of either the CPU or GPU. So I won't be surprised if it's swappable.

Predicting: swappable on "nightly" versions only and release versions are 100% "I'm sorry Dave I'm afraid I can't do that"

Re: Mozilla downsizes as it refocuses on Firefox and AI

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> Mozilla will focus on bringing “trustworthy AI into Firefox.” I hope they will give us ability to turn it off. Or at least LibreWolf will turn it off / remove it. I’d rather they add optional small subscription fee to support themselves if they have to than add AI or some other questionable functionalities.

I assume that they will. They've been better than most at making sure we can disable various things that some users find objectionable.

The last thing that they need is the firestorm that would certainly erupt if they didn't include a way to keep this disabled.

Re: Mozilla downsizes as it refocuses on Firefox and AI

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post #11

> Mozilla will focus on bringing “trustworthy AI into Firefox.” I hope they will give us ability to turn it off. Or at least LibreWolf will turn it off / remove it. I’d rather they add optional small subscription fee to support themselves if they have to than add AI or some other questionable functionalities.

And the ability to turn off whatever guardrails they put on it in an attempt to make it trustworthy.

Aren't those generally burned into the model itself so not really configurable?

Re: Mozilla downsizes as it refocuses on Firefox and AI

#16
Is there any sort of corporate structure around one of the forks? There's no doubt in my mind that if it were organized somehow the community would be able to fund a few developers to work on Firefox alongside Mozilla.

I don't want an aggressive split, but I'd like to be able to support the project. I've donated to Mozilla in the past but it apparently was not going to Firefox directly.

Re: Mozilla downsizes as it refocuses on Firefox and AI

#17

> Mozilla will focus on bringing “trustworthy AI into Firefox.” I hope they will give us ability to turn it off. Or at least LibreWolf will turn it off / remove it. I’d rather they add optional small subscription fee to support themselves if they have to than add AI or some other questionable functionalities.

There's already AI in there, see the current Translation feature.

Re: Mozilla downsizes as it refocuses on Firefox and AI

#20

An org like Mozilla making a real effort to bring open, privacy-focused AI to Firefox is interesting for sure. But I hope they don't get too distracted by the AI hype train. Interesting that they are still as focused as ever on Pocket.

Does Pocket give them the ability to create useful data for use in their AI efforts?
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