637
I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla (manualdousuario.net)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
141 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

"It’s safe to say that the people who volunteered to “shape” the initiative want it dead and buried. Of the 52 responses at the time of writing, all rejected the idea and asked Mozilla to stop shoving AI features into Firefox."

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 1 point 11 months ago (3 children)

Basically everything its used for that isn't being shoved in your face 24/7.

  • speech to text
  • image recognition
  • image to text (includes OCR)
  • language translation
  • text to speech
  • protein folding
    • lots of other bio/chem problems

Lots of these existed before the AI hype to the point they're taken for granted, but they are as much AI an LLM or image generator. All the consumer level AI services range from annoying to dangerous.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
    •
  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (2 children)

    Is it actually both good and efficient for that crap, though? Or is it just capable of doing it?

    Is it efficient at simulating protein folding, or does it constantly hallucinate impossible bullshit that has to be filtered out, burning a mountain and a lake for what a super computer circa 2010 would have just crunched through?

    Does the speech to text actually work efficiently? On a variety of accents and voices? Compared to the same resources without the bullshit machine?

    I feel like i need to ask all these questions because there are so many cultists out there contriving places to put this shit. I'm not opposed to a huge chunky 'nuclear option' for computing existing, I just think we need to actually think before we burn the kinds of resources this shit takes on something my phone could have done in 2017.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    All of the AI uses I've listed have been around for almost a decade or more and are the only computational solutions to those problems. If you've ever used speech to text that wasn't a speak-n-spell you were using a very basic AI model. If you ever scanned a document and had the text be recognized, that's an AI model.

    The catch here is I'm not talking about chatgpt or anything trying be very "general". These are all highly specialized ai models that serve a very specific function.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •