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Oh my fucking god. I just right clicked a link to an article to open it in a new tab in Firefox and saw an option to "Ask an AI Chatbot (Z)." Fucking EW. There was thankfully an option to remove it (dragonscave.space)
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Oh my fucking god. I just right clicked a link to an article to open it in a new tab in Firefox and saw an option to "Ask an AI Chatbot (Z)." Fucking EW. There was thankfully an option to remove it from my context menu, but oh my fucking god, AI bros are so fucking desperate to adopt this tech en masse, I swear to god.

Let the fucking bubble burst, nobody fucking likes generative-AI and making it goddamn inescapable is not going to make us like it. Let it go the way of NFT and the metaverse like it goddamn deserves. If generative-AI was genuinely that fucking good, people would naturally adopt it like we did with computers. Companies did not have to work this hard to get people to adopt computers because their purpose and value was obvious.

And @mozilla, @firefox please for the love of god, stop adding AI features. I get you're partially funded by Google, but grow a goddamn spine and listen to your users. People do not like these features and expect better from you. Firefox is supposed to be about privacy and generative-AI is NOT good for privacy (do I even need to mention Windows Recall?) You wanna be the alternative to Google so bad, yet you do the same scummy, disliked sh!t everyone hates Google for.

#generativeAI #SlightRant #AI #Firefox #Criticism #FuckAI

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[–] nixus@anarchist.nexus 1 points 13 hours ago

Any large successful project is going to need well paid experienced executives.

That's not true at all. There are plenty of large, successfull projects that don't have well paid experienced executives.

Like in your other comment suggesting there’s no evidence that users love chat bots - you can absolutely guarantee that mozilla has conducted some market research indicating that it’s a feature set that will attract more users.

I can not guarantee that at all. They have a long history of doing things to make money, at the cost of users. I don't see why this has to be any different.

However, it’s hubris to suggest that your own assessment of the market is more accurate than mozilla’s - exactly the kind of hubris you’re accusing mozilla of.

That's not what I'm accusing them of at all. What I'm accusing them of is having mis-aligned goals.

My goal would be to have useful, free software that gives agency and power to it's users.

Mozilla's goal is to give their executives a lot of money, by pretending to give a shit about their users, while openly selling them out.