I want nothing to do with AI, everything is like "I want transparency" I dont want them involved at all, pissing away money buzz words.
What do you want from mozilla? an open source privacy focused browser.
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You're free to send your data to google or deepl instead of using Firefox's included AI translate. You know, privacy, no AI in the browser, choose one.
I filled it, but there's no avenue there to express my complete disdain for AI and how shit it can make a product. Just make everything AI optional, don't make me download data for shit I'll never use.
I did the same thing. I just want a product or service that doesn't leverage AI. Mozilla's resources are better spent improving the web.
"We've decided to focus our efforts on AI and advertising. Please tell us why you think that's a good idea!"
Well, you have the option to elaborate otherwise. Huge effort to normalize this survey.
You can submit the survey without checking any of the boxes on the AI question, just FYI.
Shame their AI question didn’t have a “my biggest concerns is companies chasing the AI buzzword with no tangible benefit”
I agree that's basically what I out in the text box underneath the AI multi-select options. "We don't want yet another annoying AI search feature or chatbot! We want a focus on useable features and security!"
right? mozilla, you gotta focus on making a good web browser right now. not a more gimmicky web browser
I'm not anti-ai, but all signs point to the who thing stagnating, I don't see what mozilla could contribute in the current climate.
The fact that there's no option to express my anger over the environmental cost of AI is infuriating. There is no responsible or positive use of AI when it's accelerating the destruction of our climate.
~~I see a textbox saying "What do you want to see from Mozilla in the future?" You could add it there, as justification for why you want them to focus less on it~~
There is a text box part way through, I included my more general thoughts there
(my comment was getting rambly)
you get a star
Just make a better browser… you literally pioneered RUST
They were for years, called the servo engine. Until they killed off development of course
The result of the whole thing was project quantum. Firefox includes lots of Rust code. Servo was never intended to be a product, it always was a research platform.
Thankfully, development of Servo has been revived, and it's now fully independent of Mozilla. I believe it's now being stewarded by the Linux Foundation of Europe, with a lot of contributions from Igalia.
gecko webview for android, better site isolation
The audacity to direct you to a donations page after you fill out their survey 😂
They seem to have a foregone conclusion that AI is a positive thing, rather than something that should be eradicated like smallpox or syphilis.
"Responsible use of AI" could mean things like providing small offline models for client-side translation. They're actually building that feature and the preview is already amazing.
Not just building it's shipping by default. That is, language detection and code that displays a popup asking you whether you want to download the actual translation model is shipping by default. About twelve megs per model, so 24 for a language pair.
You're going to upset a lot of chess players if you get rid of all AI.
It's because it is a positive thing. Just because awful businesses hijacked and abused it doesn't mean it's all bad. Mozilla is approaching it in a positive way imo.
And what, exactly, is positive about it, that has no associated negative outcomes?
Specific to generative AI, I think client side generation can be a good thing, such as sentiment analysis or better word suggestions/autocomplete.
A number of other helpful tasks have negative outcomes, but if someone is going to use it, then I prefer they use the version of the tech that minimizes those negative outcomes. Whether Mozilla should be focussing on building that is a different matter though
AI that isn't generative AI has a lot of positive uses, but usually that's not what these discussions are about
Prolong your browser for as long as necessary and explore the possibility of using the internet without any web browsers. Firefox is a last stand of competition, and without choice there might as well not be browsers at all.
Is it wise to have such a complex everything-app with no end in sight? (more like, no end in site)
My dream: mozilla.exe . Too bad it takes SeaMonkey to do mozilla better than Mozilla.
good set of questions while trying to be non biased on certain topics.
for me, topics about privacy and misinformation matter more than ai. i would like them to lean more on helping me identify ai generated text and deepfakes as far as ai is concerned.
i also liked that mozilla study about smart cars so more of that is nice.
Besides the already sketchy AI thing, I wonder why they need to know gender & ethnicity.