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submitted 1 week ago by yoasif@fedia.io to c/linux@lemmy.world

TL;DR: Mozilla’s translation bot on Support Mozilla (that is currently overwriting user contributions is based on the closed source, copyright infringing LLM, Google Gemini. This is in spite of Mozilla claiming that they are at the forefront of open source AI, and belies their exhortations to choose to build open source AI and data sets. Although Mozilla has experience in attracting open contributions for data sets in projects like Common Voice, Mozilla is using a closed data set to overwrite open contributions. Since (paid) Gemini queries do not train the model, Mozillians can expect to correct errors every time the bot automatically updates an article.

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[-] AndrewZabar@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Gee, and all the people who opposed involvement with Gemini get to say "I told you so!" Question is, will Mozilla start listening again? I recall they used to, once upon a long time ago.

[-] jimmy90@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

time to make a Brave decision like Zorin and Nobara

[-] scintilla@crust.piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

I truly believe at this point the mozilla CEO is actively trying to kill the company for some reason.

[-] Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago

Big big parachutes for upper management. Buy into the next thing, run it into the ground, rinse and repeat.

Mozilla is just Google with a trench coat on. They fund it as protection against antitrust.

[-] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago

good thing ladybird is starting to be viable now

[-] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone -1 points 1 week ago

a shame the developer is a garbage bigot.

this post was submitted on 08 Dec 2025
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