Okay, the responses here are kinda disappointing because folks here seem to be unaware that (1) Mozilla has already added “AI” info Firefox a few versions ago (to provide machine translations of pages), and (2) the way they did it is very responsible (the whole thing is 100% local, no info is sent to other servers).
I understand that we’re all tired of this whole trend of language models being put where they don’t belong, but from what I see, Mozilla is actually the company I’d trust the most to do it right. (AFAIK, one area where the FOSS world is severely lacking and where Mozilla works to solve it is speech recognition with the Common Voice project, and if they start working on an LLM-based program to do that, I’d welcome it.)
I wish I shared your confidence. Mozilla jumped on the VR hype, then the Metaverse hype and now they’re specifically betting on generative AI. It’s leaving me feeling as suspicious as the article’s author about Mozilla’s latest ventures.
If it is totally local, (and able to be disabled easily) then great.
Do it right? Do what right? Stop making a browser?
FFS lay off the artificial intelligence bullshit. I don’t want or need machine learning in my fucking browser. I tell it where to go, and it goes there. This is not a problem that needs solving. There had better be a way to turn this garbage off.
The future fucking sucks.
So the enshittification continues.
🤢🤮
WTF?
Someone knows any good Firefox hard forks?
Try LibreWolf or Floorp.
So I’m out of a browser. Yay
Unfortunately the problem lies with the foundation. The one thing they made worth a damn in the past decade was Rust, and they promptly fired the whole Rust team. Servo is maintained by the Linux foundation now ffs. What does the foundation do besides zombie walk and eat Googles money?
Man I hope Servo pans out. I’m hopeful since it’s seen increased activity lately.
What does the foundation do besides zombie walk and eat Googles money?
The very purpose of the foundation is to spend money Firefox earns. What they fund is not exactly a secret. They’re kinda – a self-funded thing somewhere in between UNESCO and the EFF?
It was rhetorical.
I hope that ai will help us also remove ai.