I honestly don't know how people can be so judgmental about a technology. AI is just a tool that can be sometimes be very helpful if you trust the users' critical thinking skills and the ability to smell bullshit. Most of the problems associated with AI are just a consequence of shitty business models and a mediocre mode of production (Capitalism) "Judging by what I see in the comments on the posts about Firefox’s potential AI feature integrations, the apparent path that critics are recommending as an alternative browser is “I’ll yell at you until you stop using ChatGPT”. Consider this post my official notice: that strategy hasn’t worked. And it is not going to work. The only thing that will work is to offer a better alternative to these users. That will involve defining what an acceptably “good” alternative AI looks like, and then building and shipping it to these users, and convincing them to use it. I’m hoping such an effort succeeds. But I can guarantee that scolding people and trying to convince them that they’re not finding utility in the current platforms, or trying to make them feel guilty about the fact that they are finding utility in the current platforms, will not work.And none of this is exculpatory for my friends at Mozilla. As I’ve said to the good people there, and will share again here, I don’t think the framing of the way this feature has been presented has done either the Firefox team or the community any favors. These big, emotional blow-ups are demoralizing, and take away time and energy and attention that could be better spent getting people excited and motivated to grow for the future."anildash.com/2025/11/14/wantin#AI #GenerativeAI #Mozilla #Firefox #AIBrowser #OpenAI #ChatGPT
@remixtures I was ready to go off on another rant about how the foundation is genAI is based on the unprecedented theft of every bit of publicly available human sourced art, every blog, every video, every image, every code repository, every song. All stolen without permission, attribution, or compensation; also stolen without any consequences by companies run by billionaires. Or maybe I was going to talk about how they use obscene amounts of dirty energy and are pushing us further into a human-caused climate apocalypse, how these massive data centers are literally taking clean drinking water away from people who need it. I might mention how the tools are being used to replace human creativity with good enough slop in order to drive down wages and push people into labor positions as opposed to those which require thinking, how they want us to lose the ability to think critically at all so we can be more easily manipulated. I might mention how the same billionaires that stole everything we've ever done and churned it through a compost heap to represent it to us as something new are shoving it in our faces at every opportunity and treating it like it's the most benign and beneficial technology ever while downplaying that its nature means it cannot be accurate. It will always hallucinate and confabulate. That's how it works. Finally, I might suggest that we're watching the last gasps of a massive bubble that is about to burst and send the entire world into a recession, maybe a depression.But I guess I won't because "the people" want it and therefore we must give it to them.