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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[–] 17 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Gee, and all the people who opposed involvement with Gemini get to say "I told you so!" Question is, will Mozilla start listening again? I recall they used to, once upon a long time ago.

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  • [–] -2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    time to make a Brave decision like Zorin and Nobara

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    so how to we push mozilla away from american corps and big tech and towards an open/not-for-profit web again?

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  • [–] -1 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    good thing ladybird is starting to be viable now

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    I’ve been testing it. Still needs a ton of work. It’s very basic.

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