Edit 2: Also hasn’t made it to my Firefox Developer edition v148.0b10 hopefully lands soon.
Optimoprimo on
Upon trying to hit the kill switch: „I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.“
Scam_Faultman on
Just use Waterfox.
Balmung60 on
Too late, I already jumped to Waterfox, which completely cuts said features
waiguorer on
I go back to Firefox now? Hell yeah.
UnlitBlunt on
This is the most exciting AI feature that’s ever been announced.
lood9phee2Ri on
I guess it looks like from the screenshots you can leave the local models on while turning any far more dubious remote integration off?
There’s a major difference to me at least between on-device running purely local models and the corporate pretend-intelligence-as-a-remote-network-service data-leakers.
But that means you can’t use the overall kill switch, have to leave „ai“ on even to use purely local models. I hope it’s an exhaustive partition of subsettings at least i.e. so you can limit to only local models, without some remote things being on all the time and not covered by other subsettings.
whatsupeveryone34 on
wow… am I going to switch back to Mozilla?
matt95110 on
The fact that this is a feature is absolutely hilarious.
SinbadBusoni on
I can already imagine tech execs in the near future making their usual bullshit announcements but this time with something like “People are hating on AI because they’re afraid it will take away their jobs”. No, you stupid fucknut, it’s because nobody wants that shit.
SupHowWeDo on
If they really cared, it would be an opt-IN feature. Companies are not your friend, don’t go back, as soon as they think they can they’ll screw you again.
ruibranco on
This is how every browser should handle AI features. One toggle to kill everything, not buried in 15 different settings menus. The fact that it blocks both current and future AI additions by default is the real win here.
StarliteQuiteBrite on
Why?
SaveDnet-FRed0 on
It would be better for everyone if Mozilla simply didn’t waste there time developing AI crap functions, especially since the bubble is currently in the early stages of popping (were it is imploding but a lot of the company’s pushing it are sill unaware of it or doing everything in there power to slow down the pop for as long as possable), and these functions should be opt-in…
BUT, the fact that all AI crap can be disabled with 1 simple easy to find settings toggle, witch is more then almost all the other browsers implementing this crap are doing, and that most Firefox forks are probably going to have that kill switch enabled by default. Well, I can’t exactly complain unless it’s discovered the switch fails to do what it’s advertised to do.
AffectEconomy6034 on
too late buddy im still migrating to mullvad
bookslayer on
Yeah, still not gonna use it. Sorry, not sorry
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Or, and hear me out on this, simply listen to the customer and stop putting AI in everything.
Finally, an AI feature that I’m excited about.
Obviously they really should have got this in at the start but I’m pleased its almost here.
Edit: Should land on the 24th for non Beta users.
[https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Releases/148](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Releases/148)
Edit 2: Also hasn’t made it to my Firefox Developer edition v148.0b10 hopefully lands soon.
Upon trying to hit the kill switch: „I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.“
Just use Waterfox.
Too late, I already jumped to Waterfox, which completely cuts said features
I go back to Firefox now? Hell yeah.
This is the most exciting AI feature that’s ever been announced.
I guess it looks like from the screenshots you can leave the local models on while turning any far more dubious remote integration off?
There’s a major difference to me at least between on-device running purely local models and the corporate pretend-intelligence-as-a-remote-network-service data-leakers.
But that means you can’t use the overall kill switch, have to leave „ai“ on even to use purely local models. I hope it’s an exhaustive partition of subsettings at least i.e. so you can limit to only local models, without some remote things being on all the time and not covered by other subsettings.
wow… am I going to switch back to Mozilla?
The fact that this is a feature is absolutely hilarious.
I can already imagine tech execs in the near future making their usual bullshit announcements but this time with something like “People are hating on AI because they’re afraid it will take away their jobs”. No, you stupid fucknut, it’s because nobody wants that shit.
If they really cared, it would be an opt-IN feature. Companies are not your friend, don’t go back, as soon as they think they can they’ll screw you again.
This is how every browser should handle AI features. One toggle to kill everything, not buried in 15 different settings menus. The fact that it blocks both current and future AI additions by default is the real win here.
Why?
It would be better for everyone if Mozilla simply didn’t waste there time developing AI crap functions, especially since the bubble is currently in the early stages of popping (were it is imploding but a lot of the company’s pushing it are sill unaware of it or doing everything in there power to slow down the pop for as long as possable), and these functions should be opt-in…
BUT, the fact that all AI crap can be disabled with 1 simple easy to find settings toggle, witch is more then almost all the other browsers implementing this crap are doing, and that most Firefox forks are probably going to have that kill switch enabled by default. Well, I can’t exactly complain unless it’s discovered the switch fails to do what it’s advertised to do.
too late buddy im still migrating to mullvad
Yeah, still not gonna use it. Sorry, not sorry