In response to user feedback on AI integration, Mozilla announced today that the next Firefox release will let users disable AI features entirely or manage them individually.

  • gressen@lemmy.zip
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    23
    ·
    1 month ago

    Yeah, they should introduce a button to enable AI, not disable it. This implicit consent bullshit is getting old.

    • undefinedTruth@lemmy.zip
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      7
      ·
      edit-2
      1 month ago

      And even if you enable it, it should work with local LLMs. And at least from the article it doesn’t appear to be the case.

      …and sidebar access to chatbots (including Anthropic Claude, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, and Le Chat Mistral).

      • Feyd@programming.dev
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        1 month ago

        The sidebar chatbots is something you have to explicitly interact with, so no it’s not using remote LLMs without your input. Every other feature is local.

        • undefinedTruth@lemmy.zip
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          1 month ago

          I know it’s not using them without my input, what I’m saying is that there should be a local option.

          • Feyd@programming.dev
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            1
            arrow-down
            1
            ·
            1 month ago

            A local option with enough sophistication to impress anyone would have terrible performance on the vast majority of PCs and laymen would takeaway a bad impression without understanding why

            • dev_null@lemmy.ml
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              1
              ·
              1 month ago

              A laymen won’t be able to point Firefox at their local LLM installation that they don’t have, to be able to have any impression.