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AI Controversy Forces End of Mozilla’s Japanese SUMO Community (linuxiac.com)
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The SUMO Japanese team quits en masse, accusing Mozilla’s AI system of erasing years of community translation work.

The Japanese branch of Mozilla’s Support Mozilla (SUMO) community—responsible for localizing and maintaining Japanese-language support documentation for Firefox and other Mozilla products (consisting of Japanese native speakers)—has officially disbanded after more than two decades of voluntary work.

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[-] reddig33@lemmy.world 51 points 2 weeks ago

Current Mozilla leadership is driving the company into a ditch.

[-] PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au 16 points 2 weeks ago

Yes, but they're taking home six and in some cases seven figures[1]. And at the end of the day, isn't that what's really important?

[1] pretty much all of which is provided by Google as a sinecure to make sure that Chrome keeps being not a monopoly

[-] ulterno@programming.dev 3 points 2 weeks ago

As long as the keep the browser shitty enough that the it doesn't take too much of market share, but high enough to let Google in the clear with monopoly-laws, those things keep getting $$$$$$.

[-] verdi@feddit.org 4 points 2 weeks ago

This is yet another piece of evidence that shit people are shit people, regardless of gender, stop defending psychopaths out of some misguided sense of justice. Diversity only works for the proletariat, all CEOs should be treated the same, the French way.

[-] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 weeks ago

Define 'CEO'. Because legally a guy running a food truck is a CEO if he owns it.

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