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Firefox dev clarifies there will be an AI
The saga continues! A Firefox developer has taken to social media to note there will be some sort of kill switch to completely remove AI features.
There ARE legitimately useful AI features that a browser can have, but for me the problems are:
a) It's never enough. It never ends with just adding useful things (summary, document query, translation, etc) and just leave it at that. It has to keep growing. MOAR AI. MOAR!! Keep forcing stupid magic sparkle "do it for me" buttons that nobody asked for, making users more and more bitter to even benign AI-adjacent updates.
b) Unless this stuff is running off a local model (bring your own, or downloaded and cached at runtime), away from the cloud, with zero telemetry back home, you can fuck off into the sun with any of it. It's why I try to build my own tools. There's just too much "gold in them thar hills" when it comes to our data to actually trust anyone in a suit to not lie and exploit it.
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