This just screams “stupid new CEO obsessed with trying to implement AI into everything”.
I wouldn’t dismiss this just yet. Mozilla has already been doing some open source AI work, specifically their speech offerings. If they invest in these and they get better I think we all stand to gain from having good text to speech and speech recognition available outside of Apple/Amazon/Microsoft/Google
Also my understanding is they’d use AI for local language translation so it doesn’t have to connect to some external server to do it.
Just cause for-profit organizations are heavily pushing AI doesn’t mean there aren’t unskeezy uses for it…
The only good use I can think of is generating simple readable summaries of ad and picture heavy pages.
A bit like spam filters, to make the Web usable.
Could be an advantage similar to what Opera had in olden days.
Compared to the blockchain type train, I thought this whole AI thing was quite cool and actually useful, but it feels more and more similar to the blockchain hype, where companies tried to solve every problem with some form of blockchain (for example in-game items).
The same is kind of happening with AI now.
Also, a large amount of those NFT bros have lately been pushing to allow AI companies to steal artist’s works and otherwise generally licking big AI companies’ collective boot, so not exactly a great look for the future of the industry
Define “a lot”? Or better yet, sources?
A lot, as in a large amount, its hard to put a finite number on something like a large part of a large community I am not a part of nor interested in.
I am not the only one who has noticed this, here is a skit video from 4 moths ago demonstrating this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTBCzH1UyNY
As for sources there are TONS, it takes 5 seconds of googling to find a whole page, including:
https://medium.com/illuminations-mirror/where-are-the-nft-bros-c6571ba4f1fd
https://www.businessinsider.com/the-crypto-bros-are-coming-for-ai-2023-12
https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/2/23582772/chatgpt-ai-get-rich-quick-schemes-hustlers-web
https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/ai-generative-art-trend
Hell, just open one of the NFT marketplaces like opensea, I went to the art tab and the top trending is AI “art”
The same is kind of happening with AI now.
Time and time again a certain intellectual category of people believes that they have found perpetuum mobile in their lives.
And some others make money on that, of course.
It’s just to boost investor confidence. It’ll take a few years before it dies down, the true value is understood and the next buzzword takes hold. Sad state of tech these days. Many grifters, many more losers.
They will be shoving AI / ML into Firefox. FFS.
Please God no.
Time to fork it.
Hell yes
Guess what, the local private translations feature depends on AI/ML. All this blind hate for AI is so stupid.
The new translation feature is quite awesome.
People are incapable of not thinking in binary terms.
It’s the new cool thing to hate it.
No. There are hundreds of entirely valid reasons to be wary of AI, especially the fact that the word AI has just turned into a corporate buzzword, when I hear that (insert thing) has had AI added to it, that can mean anything from a single static image that was made using “AI art” , to a large language model being used, or maybe they just grafted chatGPT to it.
Maybe if people and companies stopped labeling everything even tangentially computer related as AI I’d be less dismissive of it, but as it is now, whenever “AI” is mentioned in relation to a product it feels like a “corp wants to artificially increase percieved value by using latest trend” moment
What is wrong with companies showing that they do work with this kind of stuff. They probably do already but they are just letting the people know that they do and it just happened the word AI sends that message. Though Mozilla downsizing is a bad thing and the job loss would be a valid reason. But from the thread I’m not seeing that kind of atmosphere here.
At least the code is open, and Librewolf works great.
Man fuck AI
Absolutely, but probably not until they have figured out how to make soft androids.
You’ll still have to wash it and maintenance it after, eh, spikes in usage.
You know, I’m surprised they haven’t launched a paid for, privacy centric email service like Proton or FastMail. They can give basic service for free and then charge a nominal fee for more storage like the others do. It seems like a simple way to drum up some revenue and rely a little less on the payment from Google.
From everything I’ve heard about running a reliable and trustworthy email service, it sounds like a fucking nightmare. I’m glad to pay something like proton to handle it for me.
Yep and making basic accounts free means that you either have to cripple them, ad-finance the whole thing, and/or sell private data.
A posteo account costs an euro a month and even if you don’t care about your privacy it’s one of the places you can be sure of to not shut down or alter the deal: A euro is sustainable for them and it means that you’re a customer, not the product.
Wouldn’t really consider Fastmail privacy centric, but Proton sure. And a definite step up from Gmail.
So Thunderbird is super dead this time huh?
I’m hoping the K-9 Android thing still happens.
I think they may be dumping all the rest of the code on the FOSS team.
Welp, using the internet was fun while it lasted. I’ll still use Firefox for all my browsing until I can’t anymore and after that I guess I’ll go fuck myself for entertainment instead of internet browsing.
Gemini still exists.
I didn’t think they were trying to hide it?
So, how much time do I have before I have to switch to Servo?
Mozilla Corp. acting as any other Corp. Unbelievable /s
And yet still no HDR support
Oh gawd. Keep your fucking AI out of my fucking browser!
