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

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[–] 1 point 11 months ago (9 children)

@remixtures "Just give people the “shut off all AI features” button. It’s a tiny percentage of people who want it" - no it isn't, hence the plethora of articles about "How to turn of AI in (tool)". Just this morning there was one in my feed about how to turn it off in gmail (the articles are needed because the option - when the option exists at all - is hidden away so as not to be easily findable).

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 11 months ago (8 children)

    @SmartmanApps explodingtopics.com/blog/chatg

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    @remixtures And where's the number of visitors to the NoChatGPT website to compare that number to? Oh yeah, there isn't one, thus you can't claim it's a "tiny percentage" without numbers to calculate the percentage (which there aren't).What we CAN compare that number to, say the 700,000,000 weekly active users, is the world population of more than 10 times that number, so in a given week, less than 1 in 10 people use ChatGPT, at all. If you want to talk tiny percentage...

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 11 months ago (6 children)

    @SmartmanApps That actually doesn't make much sense. Only a percentage of all human beings use the Internet.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (5 children)

    @remixtures "Only a percentage of all human beings use the Internet" - more than 2/3rds actually

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 11 months ago (4 children)

    @SmartmanApps OK, but if the growth rate continues, ChatGPT will have more users than the population of China. Also, do be aware that we're excluding Chinese Internet users. I bet that DeepSeek and Qwen must have hundreds of millions of users only in China. restofworld.org/2025/china-emb

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (3 children)

    @remixtures "but if the growth rate continues" - I see you've already abandoned your "tiny percentage" argument then, and switched to "in the future, if these trends continue, it will be a tiny percentage, maybe"."must have hundreds of millions of users only in China" - which is STILL only 1 or 2 in 10. 🙄

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 11 months ago (2 children)

    @SmartmanApps You can manipulate statistics as much as you want, but the truth is that the fact that ChatGPT has become the 5th most visited Web site in the world within a few months/years is extremely significant. in terms of user adoption, it represents stratospheric levels of diffusion. If you work in information technology, you cannot ignore LLMs. Now, these companies should be forced to open their models and respect data protection and privacy. They should also be liable for any hallucinations generated by their cloud-based models.

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    @remixtures "the truth is that the fact that ChatGPT has become the 5th most visited Web site in the world" - which ISN'T a statistic, but a total, as I have been pointing out to you the whole time. Don't try to gaslight a statistician"is extremely significant" - no it isn't. "Significant" has a specific meaning in statistics, and ChatGPT fails miserably on that count"in terms of user adoption, it represents" - less than 1 in 10 people, as I already said

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 11 months ago

    @SmartmanApps I don't have any intention of continuing with this discussion. Internet users have adopted LLM-based chatbots in a way that can be compared to a few online services. Besides ChatGPT in 5th, there's also Gemini in 30th: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_. None of these sites appeared in the same list two years ago: en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?t.

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