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Mozilla Criticizes Microsoft for Installing Copilot on Windows Without User Consent (cybersecuritynews.com)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 3 points 7 months ago (4 children)

they added an ai summary section. it's disabled by default but it consists more than half of the popup and if disabled has a big blue button on it that activates ai features, the only big blue button on the popup, and it says "continue". or, it does now. it used to be bigger and say "See more with AI" or some shit.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (3 children)

    I feel like there's a gap in the understanding of this situation. Firefox is struggling for user as is. Imagine you sit at the wheel, everyone and their grandmother are implementing AI everywhere, the average user expects to have AI at their fingertips believe me. Do you choose to stick with the very few who fully reject AI, or at least provide the option to make sure you don't fall further behind?
    This is a question of survival for every product out there, like it or not.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    several studies over the past few years have shown that a majority of people do not use ai and actively pick products without ai when given the choice. going after the majority feels like a better business decision.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I do hate all the ai stuff and wish there wasn't any of that bullshit in my visible spectrum but none of these articles you've linked support the claim of "people don't use AI". Are they concerned about AI? That's for sure. Do they use it anyway? Apparently so!

    The only article that maybe supports the claim is located behind a paywall and the headline reads that people don't want AI in their hardware/appliances, nothing about software.

    People love the path of least resistance, that's how we've always worked, and tools that summarise, translate or otherwise will help us navigate this ad-ridden content-overloaded webscape will see use, at least until something changes about this money-driven content creation scene that is today's internet (which probably won't happen, yes, because of AI LLMs)

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago

    the reason it's so hard to find studies on whether people want it or not is because that's not a question being asked. the only ones that did were duckduckgo and those answers were obviously self-selected. i cant remember which of the four articles it was now but one of them actually gives a number on how many actually want to use it and it lands somewhere around 35%.

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