AI

[Bruceinduni]

Hello Firefox,

Improvements are appreciated...thanks!

However, I am trying to avoid anything to do with AI for ethical and practical reasons: 

• I don't see how using an unpublished algorithm to scrape the internet can avoid being contaminated by mistakes and malicious untruths
• I am deeply uneasy about the energy demands that AI processing requires.

In short, the internet is a library without a librarian and scraping it with opaque or non-existent editorial control is immoral and dangerous.

Please don't persist with AI tools.

Yours

Dr Bruce Induni

[Oojamaflip]

I would also add that AI bots have a lot of security issues, such as being able to be tricked into giving over personal information like bank cards and passwords if they read them when scanning or summarising a page. I believe there is also some other major security concerns, but I am not an expert, nor do I remember the exact source, so I'd hesitate to confirm anything else for sure without being able to check. I like Firefox partly due to its focus on security and privacy and adding AI, especially adding AI by default without checking with the user first, feels like it undermines a great deal of what makes Firefox a good browser. Even if AI is not removed from Firefox, it should at least be toggable (and specifically EASILY so, just one switch in an accessible location, that turns it all off or on) and better toggable and not on by default, so users can make the choice themself if they want it or not