Firefox to create AI Window: Built for choice and control
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Re: Firefox to create AI Window: Built for choice and control
#2Mozilla still doesn't get it.
Re: Firefox to create AI Window: Built for choice and control
#3There’s no info on what the AI does? Or where the AI runs? Or anything really?
Is it just Mozilla testing the waters with the announcement?
Re: Firefox to create AI Window: Built for choice and control
#4Mozilla still doesn't get it.
Get what?
The page says this thing will be opt-in. As it also says, they can't ignore the effect AI is having in the world. I'm not much of a fan of a lot of this effect, but see some benefits in places.
Re: Firefox to create AI Window: Built for choice and control
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Re: Firefox to create AI Window: Built for choice and control
#6Mozilla leadership are quite literally ex-google and current google loyalists, who are paid to create the appearance of a competitive browser landscape for regulators, judges, and lawmakers who started out obtuse and are now increasingly openly bribed.
Mozilla's job is to go through the motions of competing for regulatory obfuscation, not to ever actually compete. That's why the salaries at this non-profit keep going up as Mozilla marketshare keeps going down.
If they wanted to actually compete they could integrate with LMStudio or similar to give their non-technical users locally running open models, that would be maximally opt-in and privacy preserving. It wouldn't even take that long.
Instead, we get another resume-padding fake "product" for someone to put on their resume before it's quietly forgotten, all for a browser with 3% marketshare and plummeting.
Re: Firefox to create AI Window: Built for choice and control
#7How many more obscure lines will I need to add to my prefs to shut the AI Window up, even if it's "opt in"? How many lines are we up to now to defang the browser?
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#8"The web is changing, and sitting it out doesn’t help anyone."
Does this just mean "the basilisk is coming and we want to make sure we're seen serving it"
Re: Firefox to create AI Window: Built for choice and control
#9Mozilla still doesn't get it.
Get what? The page says this thing will be opt-in. As it also says, they can't ignore the effect AI is having in the world. I'm not much of a fan of a lot of this effect, but see some benefits in places.
They could ignore it. Why not? I switched from Chrome to FF and FF hard-locks 3x a day for me now. Force quit, start over. Is an AI window going to stop me going back to Chrome? Who cares if FF has an AI window if FF is too janky to be a good web browser... It's just lipstick on a pig.
Re: Firefox to create AI Window: Built for choice and control
#10Welcome to zombo.com. You can do anything at zombo.com
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