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Oh gawd. Keep your fucking AI out of my fucking browser!
this post was submitted on 13 Feb 2024
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And yet still no HDR support
I don’t get the hate. Browsers are one of the few places LLMs make actual sense.
So, how much time do I have before I have to switch to Servo?
Mozilla Corp. acting as any other Corp. Unbelievable /s
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.
They’ll likely be self cleaning tbh.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
I didn't think they were trying to hide it?
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.
This just screams "stupid new CEO obsessed with trying to implement AI into everything".
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.
Im so sick of AI being inserted into every inane thing. Next it will be AI lego, AI gaming chair, AI toilet seat. Its just so fucking droll at this point. There is literally no technology I want to use less than your idiot pet AI project you just came up with. Everything now has AI in it yet nothing feels revolutionary or interesting. Its all just worse. Everything is just worse but with AI in it. Its just CEOs piling shit on top of shit on top of shit and expecting something beautiful to come out the other end. Drives me nuts.
The worst part is they still barely understand how to get AI to actually do anything. So it's always just "yo dawg, we heard you like ChatGPT, so we put ChatGPT in your car so you can chat while you drive"
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…
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