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Oh my fucking god. I just right clicked a link to an article to open it in a new tab in Firefox and saw an option to "Ask an AI Chatbot (Z)." Fucking EW. There was thankfully an option to remove it (dragonscave.space)
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Oh my fucking god. I just right clicked a link to an article to open it in a new tab in Firefox and saw an option to "Ask an AI Chatbot (Z)." Fucking EW. There was thankfully an option to remove it from my context menu, but oh my fucking god, AI bros are so fucking desperate to adopt this tech en masse, I swear to god.

Let the fucking bubble burst, nobody fucking likes generative-AI and making it goddamn inescapable is not going to make us like it. Let it go the way of NFT and the metaverse like it goddamn deserves. If generative-AI was genuinely that fucking good, people would naturally adopt it like we did with computers. Companies did not have to work this hard to get people to adopt computers because their purpose and value was obvious.

And @mozilla, @firefox please for the love of god, stop adding AI features. I get you're partially funded by Google, but grow a goddamn spine and listen to your users. People do not like these features and expect better from you. Firefox is supposed to be about privacy and generative-AI is NOT good for privacy (do I even need to mention Windows Recall?) You wanna be the alternative to Google so bad, yet you do the same scummy, disliked sh!t everyone hates Google for.

#generativeAI #SlightRant #AI #Firefox #Criticism #FuckAI

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[-] Carighan@piefed.world 11 points 1 day ago

This right here. It's one of those situations where always asking the company to "Just listen to your users, ez, lol!" results in something that, surprisingly, quite a few people dislike.

Because yes, I'd say Most People™️ actively like AI-generated stuff, and of course there are valid use cases (like summarizing text and video content, the latter even helping with accessibility). But this in turn means that if a company listens to user input, they will shove AI into their products even if they would otherwise not be looking at doing it.

[-] eleijeep@piefed.social 6 points 1 day ago

of course there are valid use cases (like summarizing text and video content, the latter even helping with accessibility)

only if you don't care about accuracy or completely made up transcription that just didn't happen.

[-] loutr@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

If a majority of users want it, offering the feature makes sense, as long as you can disable it.

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