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Firefox’s AI Kill Switch is a Trap: How Mozilla Made AI Your Problem (www.quippd.com)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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TL;DR: Mozilla recently released AI controls for Firefox: a single control panel that lets people disable AI features in the browser or pick and choose which to leave on. On the surface, this sounds like a win for user choice in an era of AI-everything. If we dig deeper, you can start to see that the kill switch isn’t the whole story. This feature acts like an accountability sink. By giving you an off-switch, Mozilla’s leadership shifts the ethical burden of AI onto the user - turning their design choices into your responsibility.

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[–] 2 points 8 months ago (20 children)

bro use another thing. don't complain or suggest something should be different! Just abandon toot sweet. Seriously im in process of moving to either waterfox or librefox but the browser is practically an abstracted next level of the os so moving over is just a bit faster than moving my os. At least for my main browser.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (3 children)

    Librewolf keeps crashing my machine whenever I alt tab out of a game to it.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

    Might just be a Firefox bug, since it's a very light fork. Try Firefox and see if it does the same thing.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    I switched back to Firefox after the third time it happened. Not a Firefox issue

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 8 months ago

    Well, you could import the same policies into Firefox that LibreWolf uses, or it might be some workaround in your graphics driver that acts on the filename of the Firefox executable.

    Obviously you don't need to test, but just throwing out ideas if you would want to.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (15 children)

    Better yet, just make a pull request. Its open source. Can build your own Firefox.

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  • [–] -3 points 8 months ago (14 children)

    xactly. or why even fork. just start building a new browser writing straight assembly or better yet bro code it with ai.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (13 children)

    The source code is there. Why reinvent the wheel. Its like 2 or 3 commands to build it.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (12 children)

    oh building it straight up removes the ai? do builds ever fail? what are the three commands. I won't need specific libraries or other requirments for my os yeah?

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

    Ezpz

    • Download source
    • Delete ai commits
    • Install deps per Firefox and OS docs
    • Build per Firefox and OS docs

    Now you won't ever have to worry about it.

    Better yet, install Tor Browser or Mullvad browser and save yourself from typing 3 command lines.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (10 children)

    im already moving to either waterfox or librefox. comes down to if my addons have any issue with either. hoping waterfox as I already sorta have waterfox for a specific setup I don't want to change.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (9 children)

    Ah well I wish you luck with the fingerprint issues with those two browsers. Weird to care about AI being in your browser but not about that, but I guess its better than Chrome.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 8 months ago (7 children)

    What fingerprint issues are you aware of?

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago* (6 children)

    https://github.com/BrowserWorks/waterfox

    Search "fingerprint" on the issues page. Read the "closed" issues as well, because all they did was close the issue and direct them to a discussion page.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    Could you link to a real issue so we aren't guessing about what we are looking at?

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (4 children)

    No. There are 30+ there.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    I'm seeing closed bugs from 2021 here, are we supposed to take these seriously?

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

    Its been a known issue for a while, yes.

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