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Orbit is an LLM addon/extension for Firefox that runs on the Mistral 7B model. It can summarize a given webpage, YouTube videos and so on. You can ask it questions about stuff that's on the page. It is very privacy friendly and does not require any account to sign up.

I personally tried it, and found it to be incredibly useful! I think this is going to be one of my long term addons along with uBlock Origin, Decentraleyes and so on. I would highly recommend checking this out!

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If you really care for an LLM, run it locally... Not sure if this does it...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Don't want to install and maintain 10gigs of cuda stuff on my PC. Next, my mum won't know how to do that. Her laptop is a potato. This add-on makes all of this way easier.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (5 children)

You don't need CUDA, it's actually pretty easy. You can run the Mistral 7B model this add-on is based on using GPT4All. It doesn't require much, if any, technical knowledge.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Well that comes with shit ton of privacy risk. If y'all are comfortable, then it is your choice

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Probably not for me as I'm not interested in a summarizing tool, but I'm not against AI in general.

OAN, I think over time, the community will see that AI was a bubble, but in the same way that the internet was a bubble back in the day.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 months ago (6 children)

In before is not just skips important details in its summarization, but also hallucinates its own interpretation of things into it.

Generally, don't call it "AI", don't overhype it, don't use it where it is bad in its function (like telling you "facts"), don't shove it into everything. I bet 80+ percent of all "AI" energy consumption is wasted on completely useless and moronic tasks that have 0 value even on a personal level.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (4 children)

OAN, I think over time, the community will see that AI was a bubble, but in the same way that the internet was a bubble back in the day.

Surprised to see this opinion on Lemmy haha. Yep, totally agree with ya here!

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[–] [email protected] 123 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Most important part of the thread:

In it's beta stage, Orbit is currently not open-source. This doesn't mean it will remain this way forever. If orbit gains traction and we have the resources and funding to support an Open-Source project, I'm sure things could change.

Press X to doubt.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 2 months ago (9 children)

Has Mozilla done sometime to deserve this skepticism? They were founded on open-source and AFAIK have continued to support open-source. Mozilla is far from a perfect organization, but if this project was a success I think it would be out of character for them to keep it closed-source.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Firefox is sustained (biggest funder) by google who needs artificial competitions to not be labeled a monopoly.

Its still the best browser i can think off that isn’t chromium but i would recommend staying skeptical.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Has Mozilla done sometime to deserve this skepticism?

Yes, their "privacy friendly ad measurement" that's opt out is a faux pas that I just can't forgive. I used to donate to the fuckers.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

That's a pretty good answer. I knew Mozilla had bought it, and were operating it as an independent subsidiary. I didn't know they promised to open-source it over 7 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 months ago (2 children)

then why make it closed source to begin with?

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Believe it or not but it requires resources to open source an internal product, especially one that may have been an experiment where some small team was able to convince leadership could become useful to the masses.

React.js at Facebook is a good example of this. It took a lot of effort to externalize and open source React, and tbh the codebase is still kind of garbage when it comes to contributions from those unfamiliar with its intricacies.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

It’s provocative it gets the people going.

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