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Firefox's AI Kill Switch Is a Trap: How Mozilla Made AI Your Problem
- joe_mamba 7mo agoMozilla can't make it my problem if I stop using Firefox and use something else. Competition is great.
- randoments 7mo agoFirefox is literally the competition lol
- joe_mamba 7mo agoThen why am I not using it?
- anshumankmr 7mo agoTheres a big difference between NOT truly open and opaque.Opus is downloadable and auditable. That’s not the same thing as undisclosed proprietary scraping. If your standard is absolute purity test, then yeah no one in AI passes. But claiming Mozilla is indistinguishable from OpenAI because they used scraped data is disingenous.
- politelemon 7mo agoIt appears that despite being the only vendor to provide an actual choice in the matter, Mozilla cannot escape bad faith scrutiny.
- koehr 7mo agoThis is the wrong argument. Claiming that Mozilla is doing it wrong because the technology purist part of their userbase decided they don't want AI is simply short-sighted. The kill switch is the best option, because it let's Firefox be like a typical user would expect, while still giving the option to deactivate things. Deactivate by default and the typical user feels patronized.
- Eddy_Viscosity2 7mo agoI just got the new firefox update and on first load it gave me a decent splash screen about the AI features which I promptly disabled. This is fine.
- itmitica 7mo agoThe only trap is the article.
- thedevilslawyer 7mo agoThese are crappy arguments. The author is seeking to re-litigate Piracy of IP is bad, and AI is bad. If those are your axioms then you will find the old world is already in the rear-view mirror, and they want to pull back every other project to stay with them in that world. AI is here. Free software succeeded - make as much as you want. This technology a force multiplier. You can debate it's morality, but most people want to do their work.