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Firefox introduces AI as experimental feature (lemmy.fish)
submitted 4 months ago by potentiallynotfelix@lemmy.fish to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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They support Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, HuggingChat, and Mistral.

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[–] XPost3000@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago

The fact that I can't choose one of the many AIs I have locally downloaded on my computer is bogus

[–] dukatos@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

And I still can't convince it to stop caching the images because it does not follows the RFC.

[–] Echolynx@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Sigh. I'm glad to have switched to LibreWolf.

[–] HouseWolf@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

I switched a while back before all the Ai and "privacy preserving" telemetry stuff.

Every update note I see for Firefox now just reinforces my decision.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago

Luckily, it seems to be disabled by default. At the moment.

[–] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 6 points 4 months ago

I wonder if this can be removed at compile time, like Pocket.

[–] Mwa@lemm.ee 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Wasn't this there for a while, or just me.

[–] ByteMe@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It is since version 128 I think

[–] Mwa@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago

I think 130

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 5 points 4 months ago

Wow, great job Firefox. Thanks.

If I wanted unreliable bullshit like AI, I'd use Chrome.

[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 36 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Unpopular opinion, I think they're doing it right as well as it can be at least. It's completely optional and doesn't seem to be intrusive.

[–] Mwa@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago

I agree

[–] potentiallynotfelix@lemmy.fish 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

yeah its not google chrome level which i'm thankful about.

[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm way more pissed about restarting my PC after an update and having Copilot installed without my permission.

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

This happened ages ago, didn't it? Am I missing something new?

[–] potentiallynotfelix@lemmy.fish 1 points 4 months ago

I only saw it now, maybe it happened before on a different version.

[–] 2kool4idkwhat@lemdro.id 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, it did. That feature has been there at least since when Mozilla enabled "Firefox labs" section in settings by default a few months ago, and maybe even earlier than that

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

TIL a month is an age.

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Well, this month in particular....

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

True. ❤️

[–] celeste@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 4 months ago (3 children)

If they do it in a privacy-preseeving way, this could help them get back market share which will generally benefit an open internet.

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Why would anybody want to have AI in their browser? It's a fucking browser.

[–] celeste@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 months ago

Because browsers are the most useful tool on most computers. Ordinary People go on google/ask chatgpt for mundane questions. If their browser can do that they need 1 app less and it will be more convenient which is what especially non-tech savy people care about.

[–] potentiallynotfelix@lemmy.fish 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

But it's gonna be very difficult when you've got Google and OpenAI up there.

[–] celeste@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 months ago

It's an open source project, you can keep it in a box and people are able to check it.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

I really wish there was another way.

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