TL;DR: Mozilla recently released AI controls for Firefox — a single control panel that lets people disable AI features in the browser or pick and choose which to leave on. On the surface, this sounds like a win for user choice in an era of AI-everything.
  • vapeloki@lemmy.world
    122·
    6 months ago

    As someone said something against Firefox.

    As someone who donated regularly to the Mozilla foundation: adding AI in a browser is a stupid idea, always will be and alone the fact that Firefox spends time and resources in this feature means, they have to earn that money again.

    I will not donate anymore, as long as they develop WI features for Firefox.

    Vote this and this comment down as much as you like but fact is, that money must come from somewhere, and the biggest source of income is still selling Google the default search engine spot and outer questionable sources.

    This is not sustainable and a bad day for user choice.

  • SayCyberOnceMore@feddit.ukEnglish
    3·
    6 months ago

    Ok, I started to disconnect about halfway through that article and skimmed the rest, but I don’t see how this is a trap.

    I just see someone highlighting LLM categorisation and the legality of training data… but no trap.

    Or, am I the one stepping blindly into a trap?

    • yoasif@lemmy.worldOP
      4·
      6 months ago

      I’d say the trap is believing that Mozilla is actually on your side when it comes to AI in Firefox. It isn’t - they are trying to get you to cosign their theft of the commons by tricking you into thinking it is all “good”.