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I can see people not necessarily wanting suggestions for tab group names, but... The rest of the list is translations and alt text suggestions for images added to PDFs. The most uncontroversial AI features if ever there were any.
I really don't care for this urge to advertise "AI" everywhere. I also don't care much for the knee-jerk reaction just because someone calls something AI.
Firefox doesn't let you use alt text anywhere, except for the most ridiculously niche location.
People who want to see it when they browse webpages get nothing.
It's only if you
If Mozilla cares about accessibility, what a weird niche of a niche of a place to put it.
I'm afraid the reason for that is that is that it's the only place where Firefox has full control over the upload experience. Like, how would Firefox even be able to insert an alt text when e.g. I'm uploading a pic to Mastodon, without adding special cases for every website (which would break whenever the websites update)?
Though I wouldn't be surprised if at least some "copy suggested alt text to clipboard" feature would be added at some point.
In any case, sure it's an edge case, but it's still weird to be angry about "AI" for it. It won't even download the model if you don't use it, AFAIK.
They could be working on that, but we don't know yet.
I just want a browser that loads webpages and performs well, keep this ai bullshit for add-on's and away from default installs.
Lynx remembers
They've already made that. AI is an excuse to grow past Firefox web browser's growth capacity. Companies like Firefox will keep adding these "useless" (probably data mining) AI features as long as the people playing in the market are willing to keep inflating the ai bubble stock prices.
Firefox protects your privacy by running AI models directly on your device, ensuring your sensitive data remains local
Good enough for me. The privacy problem with AI is when they are web services you send all your data to for processing. If that isn't happening, that problem is fully solved.
I dont want the fucking AI just focus on the browser, is it so hard to fucking get.
So they don't intend on making a profit from it from data gathering, nobody asked for it, and the open source community who would otherwise donate or contributes to Mozilla are so disgusted by the whole thing tgat they are now just holding their noses and waiting for an alternative.
All of this while Google is stepping down as sugar daddy and they need all the help they can get.
Why the hell are they doing this? Is it just a case of moronic leadership and getting stuck in a negative spiral where the whole operation gets stupider and stupider with each new hire?
Well, people were at least asking for translations all the time.
Yeah, I'm honestly happy about local translations, and I was still supporting Mozilla when it was rolled out. There's just been too much bullshit since.
"The fact that we removed the promise not to sell your data from our website is pure coincidence."
ai has potential, but has techbros so uncreative spearheading it