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  • 299792458ms@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Not going to lie, AI can be a very powerfull tool but the “we want your browsing experience to be divine, but don’t worry we have your back” scares me shitless. Firefox has always had our backs, why do they feel the need to mention it now? Maybe I’m being paranoid but I feel like a browser shoulf just be a browser.

    • cley_faye@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Firefox has always had our backs

      It’s been going in a less friendly direction for a while. Embedding of mandatory useless extensions, aggressive advertising, deals to display more and more content to more users, disregard for user settings on multiple updates, opt-out telemetry, and now telling you that you’re using it wrong.

      Sure, you can navigate through various settings to disable most of these, and check back on updates for settings that toggles back, or are simply renamed and mysteriously got back to their default, intrusive value. But we should not have to do that.

      And that’s not even touching the issue with the Mozilla Corporation itself.

      Firefox is the alternative browser, but it certainly isn’t there to “have your back”.

  • StarlightDust@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    5 months ago

    The new CEO of Mozilla, Laura Chambers, has a background working at all sorts of evil companies like AirBnB and PayPal. Its absolutely no surprise that the company immediately dropped plans to diversify in ethical, unique and privacy friendly ways as soon as she joined.

    CEOs getting paid primarily in stock means grifters like this will drop their USP for whatever trend makes the line go up, if it is crypto, NFTs, or AI.

    • Blisterexe@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Shes not the new ceo, shes a temporary interim ceo while they find someone better

  • Allero@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Our initial offering will include ChatGPT, Google Gemini, HuggingChat, and Le Chat Mistral, but we will continue adding AI services that meet our standards for quality and user experience.

    Is that the same Mozilla that started the Joint Statement on AI Safety and Openness?

    What in living hell do proprietary and predatory AI services even doing here?

    Mozilla just offered users to feed into the very abomination they claim to fight.

    Also, for all things “AI”, local is the only way to go if you ever want to have a chance at privacy.

    • Blisterexe@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      5 months ago

      “Our initial offering”

      They said in the article theyll also offer the use of self-hosted models later

        • Blisterexe@lemmy.zipEnglish
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          5 months ago

          Whether it’s a local or a cloud-based model, if you want to use AI, we think you should have the freedom to use (or not use) the tools that best suit your needs.

          Ok it doesnt say it directly but you can see where i got it from

  • gnuhaut@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    5 months ago

    trustworthy AI

    Our initial offering will include ChatGPT, Google Gemini, HuggingChat, and Le Chat Mistral

    What