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Mozilla’s Betrayal of Open Source: Google’s Gemini AI is Overwriting Volunteer Work on Support Mozilla (www.quippd.com)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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TL;DR: Mozilla’s translation bot on Support Mozilla (that is currently overwriting user contributions is based on the closed source, copyright infringing LLM, Google Gemini. This is in spite of Mozilla claiming that they are at the forefront of open source AI, and belies their exhortations to choose to build open source AI and data sets. Although Mozilla has experience in attracting open contributions for data sets in projects like Common Voice, Mozilla is using a closed data set to overwrite open contributions. Since (paid) Gemini queries do not train the model, Mozillians can expect to correct errors every time the bot automatically updates an article.

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[–] 2 points 11 months ago*

Is there a way to verify that? I did run Servo months ago and some pages did render without issues. Others not but that wasn't enough for me to draw such a conclusion. I remember Mozilla pushed for https://webcompat.com/ so wondering if this can be used to see the pace of change.

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