trustworthy AI
Our initial offering will include ChatGPT, Google Gemini, HuggingChat, and Le Chat Mistral
What
Why does my open source browser need proprietary SaaS products stuffed into it?
Isn’t this what extensions are for?
Firefox has a tendency to embed optional extensions as impossible to uninstall core features these days, so it would not change much.
I wish they spent their time fixing bugs, rather than implementing this bullshit
Can I ask areal question? I’m not trying to be a dick or smart ass, I legit don’t get this. What is bullshit here? I read the article and it seems like a useful feature to me.
“this week, we will launch an opt-in experiment”
“those who have opted-in will have the option to access their preferred AI service from the Firefox sidebar”
Is this opt in only feature really terrible? Because as a user of ai, not switching tabs sounds like a nice new feature to me.
I strongly believe that generative AI is catastrophically misused in the vast majority of its applications, so in my eyes, adding gpt-based AI to the browser is largely a wasted effort
I highly doubt they have one team that switches between experiments and bug fixes, never doing two things at once. Not to mention that something ultimately being ripped out isn’t necessarily wasted effort. They could likely easily pivot virtually anything they put into this specific experiment into any number of other uses.
Honestly, the worst part of the AI craze is that so many people hear AI now and immediately hate it even though it can really do some amazing stuff, e.g. in medicine. AI as a blanket term just has so much variance, there’s a ton of trash and a ton of great stuff.
Part of the problem is that all ads anymore want push their version of “AI” in your face and some of these “AI” are nothing new just rebranded.
Part of my research as an undergrad was working with PLSA. It’s very much an algorithm.
Pretty sure the only thing I wouldn’t object to AI being used for in Firefox would be ad blocking. Surely they’re going to use this for that right?
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Shit.
native tab grouping would be a much more desirable feature, to me
Any good forks without AI? I really don’t want that AI companies with my data.
As long as I can disable it, sure. Knock yourself out.
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They actually plan to use some local stuff in addition to the rest, otherwise I don’t trust anything OpenAI/Google.
Anyone have any other good suggestions for Firefox alternatives? Sounds like I may be needing to switch soon.
I highly recommend everyone making the switch to LibreWolf. It’s a custom version of Firefox that focuses on the things that matter like privacy and security, while cutting out the annoyances that Mozilla loves to add to their browsers.
Oh. This looks great. Thank you for sharing.
Also Firefox but less shitty.
I think it makes sense. I like ChatGPT and I appreciate having easy access to it. What I really wish is the option to use local models instead. I realize most people don’t have machines that can tokenize quickly enough but for those that do…
Seconding this. Why not allow people to run llama3 or other open source models?
It already has AI-powered translations though? Time to switch to librewolf anyway
I’m happy that I’m already using LibreWolf.
And we say goodbye to Firefox. NEXT!
