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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If the past is any indication, it'll either be off by default or you can turn it off. So maybe it isnt' all the drama that people make it sound like.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

But it's a hellishly expensive thing that seems to not attract enjoyment from current Firefox users, and seems unlikely to bring new users, and (again) seems to be prioritised over other things that could better use the money, like developers, so...

Why.