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Summarizing huge blocks of text is a very useful feature of the LLMs, why are HN users so angry about this?
by sigmar 2y ago
Summarizing huge blocks of text is a very useful feature of the LLMs, why are HN users so angry about this?
- Guest42 2y agoAs an opt in add-on with transparent side effects, this would be fantastic
- rdlw 2y agoIt is opt-in.
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- GrassTheKayaks 2y ago[dead]
- yjftsjthsd-h 2y agoProbably because it integrates with cloud AI providers, and the kind of person who uses Firefox probably has strong opinions about their browser integrating with a proprietary 3rd-party service and sending personal data to it.
- sigmar 2y agoyeah, but it is opt-in. and even if it was defaulted to enabled, firefox already has a "search google for" in the right click menu which also sends selected text to a third party... were people upset with that button?
- yjftsjthsd-h 2y ago> yeah, but it is opt-in. I agree that that helps. > and even if it was defaulted to enabled, firefox already has a "search google for" in the right click menu which also sends selected text to a third party... were people upset with that button? Yes, I am absolutely annoyed that Firefox defaults to searching with Google, and much more so that it defaults to sending text from the search+URL bar before executing the search. Though I suppose on the basis that Mozilla does need to fund Firefox development, I would be more willing to give them a tiny bit of slack if Hugging Face or whoever is paying to be the default AI.
- dec0dedab0de 2y agoI absolutely hate that it comes with search integration by default. Especially that it is in the URL bar instead of a separate text box. I'm also not a fan of DNS over HTTPs, malware protection, and telemetry. I don't want my web browser sending any extra traffic anywhere I'm not expecting.
- throwawa14223 2y agoHow is that a useful feature when you have to read the summary and the text to ensure there wasn't a hallucination. It has net increased how long it takes.