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  • GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    Looks like the “local AI only” idea was purged in favor of some Big Tech stuff that can give Mozilla some fat cash for promoting their services! Mozilla’s second (or third idk at this point lol) downfall is looking really strong with all their recent decisions. WebKit is another independent engine that still doesn’t seem to suck in terms of enshittification but it’s basically not used anywhere except Apple ecosystem. Chromium is getting a full monopoly yay.

    • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      5 months ago

      I do self host several AI applications for myself on a low end device and I think for most lowend even mid devices local AI is unfeasible. Nowadays is too much resource heavy and times are too long without high end devices.

      For my computer generating a description of a picture (one of the firefox new features) could easily take up to 5-10 minutes with the cpu at 100%. That’s just not viable for doing while browsing.

      Anyway I would love for firefox to open source the server side of this. So in case someone have s computer powerful enough they could do it locally if they want to.

    • Captain Janeway@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      Well I’m guessing they actually did testing on local AI using a 4GB and 8GB RAM laptop and realized it would be an awful user experience. It’s just too slow.

      I wish they rolled it in as an option though.

    • Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      5 months ago

      Some people might want this, I just don’t get why this has to be built in to the browser, instead of an official add-on.

      Especially considering it looks like they just embedded the chatgpt website in an embedded window.

        • suoko@feddit.it
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          5 months ago

          No, llamafile Is local, and it could do multiple search engine for you, or skip results contained in the first pages which are usually only ads or there because they pay to be there. And it could start searching the fediverse too

    • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.comEnglish
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      5 months ago

      The implementation doesn’t sound terrible.

      • It’s opt-in
      • It’s basically a sidebar chat window

      So if you already use GPT for day-to-day, it may be a welcome experience. If you don’t, don’t opt in.

      I’m skeptical of GPT add-ons, bit at least this was done in a low-bloat opt-in way (which allows Mozilla to bring in revenue (probably)).