104 points

This just screams “stupid new CEO obsessed with trying to implement AI into everything”.

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I wouldn’t dismiss this just yet. Mozilla has already been doing some open source AI work, specifically their speech offerings. If they invest in these and they get better I think we all stand to gain from having good text to speech and speech recognition available outside of Apple/Amazon/Microsoft/Google

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Also my understanding is they’d use AI for local language translation so it doesn’t have to connect to some external server to do it.

Just cause for-profit organizations are heavily pushing AI doesn’t mean there aren’t unskeezy uses for it…

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Im so sick of AI being inserted into every inane thing. Next it will be AI lego, AI gaming chair, AI toilet seat. Its just so fucking droll at this point. There is literally no technology I want to use less than your idiot pet AI project you just came up with. Everything now has AI in it yet nothing feels revolutionary or interesting. Its all just worse. Everything is just worse but with AI in it. Its just CEOs piling shit on top of shit on top of shit and expecting something beautiful to come out the other end. Drives me nuts.

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The worst part is they still barely understand how to get AI to actually do anything. So it’s always just “yo dawg, we heard you like ChatGPT, so we put ChatGPT in your car so you can chat while you drive”

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The only good use I can think of is generating simple readable summaries of ad and picture heavy pages.

A bit like spam filters, to make the Web usable.

Could be an advantage similar to what Opera had in olden days.

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Or “fresh new CEO without baggage who sees where the future of the technology is heading.”

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More like “new CEO knows how to chase the latest shiny fad”

Where tech is going, that couldn’t be more absurd. When you’re done bootlicking, that taste takes a while to clear out.

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Compared to the blockchain type train, I thought this whole AI thing was quite cool and actually useful, but it feels more and more similar to the blockchain hype, where companies tried to solve every problem with some form of blockchain (for example in-game items).

The same is kind of happening with AI now.

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Also, a large amount of those NFT bros have lately been pushing to allow AI companies to steal artist’s works and otherwise generally licking big AI companies’ collective boot, so not exactly a great look for the future of the industry

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Define “a lot”? Or better yet, sources?

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A lot, as in a large amount, its hard to put a finite number on something like a large part of a large community I am not a part of nor interested in.

I am not the only one who has noticed this, here is a skit video from 4 moths ago demonstrating this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTBCzH1UyNY

As for sources there are TONS, it takes 5 seconds of googling to find a whole page, including:

https://medium.com/illuminations-mirror/where-are-the-nft-bros-c6571ba4f1fd

https://www.forbes.com/sites/williamhochberg/2023/03/18/at-sxsw-it-was-goodbye-nfts-and-hello-ai-music/?sh=5f3e442e54c6

https://www.businessinsider.com/the-crypto-bros-are-coming-for-ai-2023-12

https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/2/23582772/chatgpt-ai-get-rich-quick-schemes-hustlers-web

https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/ai-generative-art-trend

Hell, just open one of the NFT marketplaces like opensea, I went to the art tab and the top trending is AI “art”

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The same is kind of happening with AI now.

Time and time again a certain intellectual category of people believes that they have found perpetuum mobile in their lives.

And some others make money on that, of course.

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It’s just to boost investor confidence. It’ll take a few years before it dies down, the true value is understood and the next buzzword takes hold. Sad state of tech these days. Many grifters, many more losers.

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They will be shoving AI / ML into Firefox. FFS.

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39 points

Please God no.

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Guess what, the local private translations feature depends on AI/ML. All this blind hate for AI is so stupid.

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11 points

The new translation feature is quite awesome.

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10 points

People are incapable of not thinking in binary terms.

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5 points

It’s the new cool thing to hate it.

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No. There are hundreds of entirely valid reasons to be wary of AI, especially the fact that the word AI has just turned into a corporate buzzword, when I hear that (insert thing) has had AI added to it, that can mean anything from a single static image that was made using “AI art” , to a large language model being used, or maybe they just grafted chatGPT to it.

Maybe if people and companies stopped labeling everything even tangentially computer related as AI I’d be less dismissive of it, but as it is now, whenever “AI” is mentioned in relation to a product it feels like a “corp wants to artificially increase percieved value by using latest trend” moment

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18 points

Time to fork it.

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36 points

Or, you know, clicking a button in the settings to turn it off.

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5 points

Librewolf

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Floorp!

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3 points

Hell yes

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32 points

Man fuck AI

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Absolutely, but probably not until they have figured out how to make soft androids.

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5 points

You’ll still have to wash it and maintenance it after, eh, spikes in usage.

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They’ll likely be self cleaning tbh.

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At least the code is open, and Librewolf works great.

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Edit: I’m going to rephrase this so as not to divert it on the misinterpretation of a particular case.

Librewolf doesn’t check anything, it just applies patches automatically. That’s why sometimes bugs happen, like corrupting the user profiles of all flatpak users a year ago; entirely the fault of librewolf for not updating a line of code, and not of any third party.

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If you read into it, it was because the users Software Manager chose to downgrade from v108 > v107. I wouldn’t knock this on the Librewolf team, although I don’t use it, so there could be other issues I wouldn’t know about.

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