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Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox (arstechnica.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

This is how you lose. I only use FF. I will switch to another browser if they enshittify with AI.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Which browser is not going to have AI?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Netscape Navigator!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Ungoogled Chromium

[–] [email protected] -5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Which browser is not going to have AI?

the ones worth using, of course

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That was an empty answer.

I assume there'll be some niche little fork for the die-hards for whom clicking a button in the settings to turn off the features they don't like isn't enough.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ok. You're entitled to have your own opinion, as I do.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Problem is that the anti-AI folk don't want me to have the option to have AI in my browser of choice.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Not me, though. You want your AI browser, and I want my "dumb" browser, of course they can coexist

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Lync?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

you meant lynx, I suppose? it's still useful sometimes... last time I needed it was last year, when I did a bad nvidia driver install

edit: I meant elinks not lynx

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Yes, Lynx is the one I meant. Haven't heard of it nor seen it since university in the early 90's so I thought it would be fitting here.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Why though? I’ve pointed out elsewhere, a browser is one of the few places an LLM makes sense. Especially if it’s local.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Too late Firefox already contains neural nets. It's how the inbuilt local machine translation works.