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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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[–] [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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