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Mozilla roll out first AI features in Firefox Nightly (blog.mozilla.org)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 106 points 4 months ago (5 children)

people please actually read the article not the headline; this is literally about accessibility improvements for blind and visually impaired people for generating alt text inside of documents and pdfs.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's one of the things, but it's also adding a dedicated sidebar for AI. That's the sort of thing that should just be an extension, there's absolutely no reason at all why that needs to be something built into the browser.

Developers should be providing alt text themselves, but in cases where they aren't having a local image recognition model running to provide a description isn't terrible as long as it's either 100% local or completely opt-in.

The dedicated sidebar on the other hand feels very much like a cheap attempt to cash in on the AI fad.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

That’s the sort of thing that should just be an extension

It most likely is on the technical level, just shipped by default and integrated into standard settings instead of the add-on ones. And it's going to be opt-in, so you won't have to go into about:config to disable it. Speaking of: You're looking for extensions.pocket.enabled, it should be false. And before you say "muh diskspace" it's probably like 5k of js and css or such.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago

yeah but AI bad no matter if it would be actually useful for once

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

access their preferred AI service from the Firefox sidebar to summarize information, simplify language, or test their knowledge, all without leaving their current web page.

Our initial offering will include ChatGPT, Google Gemini, HuggingChat, and Le Chat Mistral

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Now we just need accessibility tools for the cognitively impaired that can't seem to read the damn article.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Many of the people complaining about a feature they would just disable and never use are also the same kinds of people who would complain about basic accessibility features and call them “unnecessary bloat”.

[–] slackassassin 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Fuck braille bro

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 1 points 4 months ago

Yeah, why do you think you can put bumps on my nice, flat screen. Entitles pieces of crap... :)