First, citation needed on these people who want AI. People on LinkedIn will hate to hear this, but I don’t think the average user does.
Second, I don’t understand your point. Do you actually believe the average user would feel compelled to switch to Firefox? Why? Instead, Mozilla is taking aim at their current users.
They say a switch will be built in. There is no switch yet. Which means the deluge of little popups about AI tab grouping and the “look at Perplexity” messages are not going away until these changes are actually released.
As we enter a new era shaped by AI and renewed debates over consumer agency…
Hey Mozilla: Despite your belief, AI is not inevitable for every product under the sun.
Microsoft could even push its AI summaries as a RAM-friendly version of visiting website pages.
This definitely sounds like what Mozilla wants to do, but who will care? People who want AI in the browser already have Edge and browsers developed by AI companies. Mozilla is just arriving late to the party, the same way they did with VR.
“He” this time. The CEO keeps changing, but their mission keeps getting worse
Personally, I find all this talk of “choice” from Mozilla to be a red herring. What exactly does it mean?
When Mozilla introduced telemetry, they had to give us a reason. They had to promise it was good because it would help them develop their browser. But with talk of “choice,” Mozilla simply implies AI is good without explaining how.
This appears to be a bad article. See: https://piefed.social/post/1573197
Or add it to the list of onboarding steps at the very beginning. Otherwise, it’s either on by default or off by default, and our (or Mozilla’s) definition of “easy” is entirely open to interpretation.
Koi, an AI company with ties to industry titans like OpenAI, complains extensions scrape your AI data: “How dare you swipe when I have rightfully stolen?”
Companies like OpenAI won’t even hardcode a shutdown command for conversations that go into suicide methods… They just talk about “guardrails” all day, which is apparently the AI equivalent of “thoughts and prayers”
For me, it was opt in, turned off by default. Apparently it’s turned on if you opt in to studies, but I definitely never do.
I counted one more, and there’s a couple others I take umbrage at.
AI-only features:
Monopoly-only features:
AI-“enhanced” features:
“It sounds like you want low-end devices to be turned into thin clients for cloud-based operating systems. Do I have that right?”
Just one glance at that website and you can see it has been created for cryptocurrency enthusiasts. Questions and answers are measured in their value by how much money speculators have thrown at them.
You might as well ask questions on the Polymarket…
I looked around a little bit and found a couple dashcam projects. This one looks the most promising.
https://github.com/Myzel394/Alibi
Alternatively, are you able to downgrade Magic Earth by installing an older version of the APK?
“Great pick by [Donald Trump]. 10 years ago, Republicans were the party of big business and Dems stood for the little guys, but today the tables have completely turned.”
- Andy Yen, Proton CEO
“Until corporate Dems are thrown out, the reality is that Republicans remain more likely to tackle Big Tech abuses.”
- Proton
They could both be right… From a certain point of view.
Within FAIR, LeCun has instead focused on developing world models that can truly plan and reason. Over the past year, though, Meta’s AI research groups have seen growing tension and mass layoffs as Zuckerberg has shifted the company’s AI strategy away from long-term research and toward the rapid deployment of commercial products.
LeCun says current AI models are a dead end for progress. I think he’s correct.
Zuckerberg appears to believe long term development of alternative models will be a bigger money drain than pushing current ones. I think he’s correct too.
It looks like two guys arguing about which dead end to pursue.
The only reason I’m gonna be smart enough to bring water to concerts is because I read this thread.
That’s… Not really a switch. If somebody has to go to a secret place, get past a warning sign, and type in a half dozen secret commands… it sounds more like an espionage movie than the flipping of a switch.
And people have already complained that some of those flags don’t affect newer ones, which Mozilla keeps adding. We might as well say Microsoft has a setting to turn off telemetry, never mind it’s also hidden and it also keeps getting switched back on.