06-21-2024 11:55 AM - edited 07-09-2024 01:20 PM
Hi folks,
In the next few days, we will start the Nightly experiment which provides easy access to AI services from the sidebar. This functionality is entirely optional, and it’s there to see if it’s a helpful addition to Firefox. It is not built into any core functionality and needs to be turned on by you to see it.
If you want to try the experiment, activate it via Nightly Settings > Firefox Labs (please see full instructions here).
We’d love to hear your feedback once you try out the feature, and we’re open to all your ideas and thoughts, whether it’s small tweaks to the current experience or big, creative suggestions that could boost your productivity and make accessing your favorite tools and services in Firefox even easier.
Thanks so much for helping us improve Firefox!
09-09-2024 09:51 AM
@SoliTheFox wrote:For example, I use open weights models to summarize stuff or check if a certain page contains what I actually want to know about. I do not trust it 90% of the time, as it can hallucinate.
I'm sorry, but why are you using a "tool" that you apparently can't trust 90% of the time? You're double-checking its work anyway. 🙃 It sounds like you're actually making more work for yourself.
You know what can't hallucinate? Ctrl + F.
09-09-2024 02:27 PM - edited 09-09-2024 02:52 PM
Can ctrl-f summarize entire pages?
Can ctrl-f read an entire page in 2 seconds and tell me if my super specific problem is covered inside the page? Or should i prefer to ctrl+f through all of the 72 ocurrences of the word (8 of them on the same paragraph) related to what i'm looking for in order to get what i want?
Can ctrl+f merge all of the code blocks into one so i can actually figure out in 2 seconds if i'm reading the pytorch documentation all over again, written with different words, or something that will actually be new for me?
Idk, ctrl+f seems really easier to use and more powerful when you know exactly what phrase to look for to go straight to where it covers what you want. Also, 90% of the times is not even necessary to check anything if you are using 8b models instead of 2b models. Smaller models hallucinate more frequently, but they also give me an instant answer.
And honestly, there's a reason why people prefer rendering html instead of reading the raw file, even though rendering a webpage is extra work. Ease of use is important.
09-09-2024 02:43 PM
And it really do seems like your own words apply to you:
"The dismissiveness and arrogance with which you responded to this [...] person, who gave you their ...
09-10-2024 04:27 AM
I do not have to tell you anything but if this means you shut up afterwards, then here we go:
What AI (ChatGPT, Cladue, others) is just an improved version of autocompletion.
Where exactly AI being trained: Many text on internet, including copyrighted content and code, it's used as soon as OpenAI is able to web-scrape it.
Also, you don't scare me when you show me code snippet of what you find over open-source projects, another funny thing is that the code you show is UI of Firefox's AI integration, nothing actually related to AI itself.
09-10-2024 11:33 AM
Ok bozo, make the argument about "AI" in general when we are discussing the Firefox feature here. Considering your response, it seems you either have serious problems of text interpretation, or you are misinterpreting my response in bad faith. Any chatbot can help you with that tho, unfortunately we are left with just your intelligence here.
I repeat my question again: where is the new Firefox feature being trained on user's data? Does the inference use any computer resources from the user? What are we discussing on this thread: "AI" in general, or the new Firefox feature?
Like i said, all i want is you to show me how this feature is actually bad other than the "moral high ground" arguments. After all, you guys want this removed, so i wonder how it is actually a bad feature that worsens the user's experience. Does it make your computer any slower? Does it have any glitch or bug that affects other areas of the browser? Is your experience less smooth now in terms of UI/UX? Does it pop up everytime you use ur browser? I ask this because, like i said in my initial comment, i've seen many people claim this.
09-07-2024 12:19 PM
Just no!
09-07-2024 01:33 PM
My continued and continuous use of Firefox, which dates back to building from source before the software was even called "Firefox", depends strongly on never being reminded that this is a thing that exists, and I do not recommend pushing your luck any further than you've already done. I already terminated financial support over the fact that you're even wasting resources on this particular hype bubble (and will consider re-instating it if I feel that the madness has stopped), and I'm asking you with all the politeness I can muster not to gamble more aggressively or passive-aggressively with my tolerance in this matter.
Thank you.
09-07-2024 02:22 PM
I demand a version of Firefox that does not have this feature. It makes no difference to me that the feature can be disabled, or even whether it is disabled by default. The presence of the code to run this feature on my computer is unacceptable. If you can't provide me a version of Firefox that has the AI chatbot feature *removed* (not just disabled), or in which the AI chatbot feature is an uninstallable plugin, then I am going to switch to LibreWolf or whatever fork of Firefox will remove the AI features for me.
I. Do. Not. Consent. To AI software being installed on my computer. Period. It wasn't okay when Microsoft forced an AI client onto my computer, and it's not okay when you do it. I switched from SwiftKey to GBoard to remove the AI client, I am switching from Windows to Linux to avoid the Windows 11 AI client, I will switch from Firefox to [whatever I have to] to remove the AI client.
You should not have done this, and I cannot support you as a company until you stop.
09-07-2024 10:54 PM
I believe LibreWolf (Firefox fork that focus' on being more private by default) might not have this feature, not entirely sure but I know I will probably look into it!
09-08-2024 07:05 AM
As of right now, this feature is also present in Librewolf and Zen Browser.
Not sure if they will remove it in the future.
Kinda wish we had a "Unmozillad Firefox", similar to the Ungoogled Chrome.
But sad that we need that in the first place 😥
09-09-2024 01:33 AM
librewolf came to a decision on removing it today, it'll be gone soon i expect
09-07-2024 02:30 PM
Yeah, this sucks. People who want this could already have used extensions, but Firefox integrating this even as a lab, and letting one guy out here carry water for it, for months, is yet another move that undermines trust in Mozilla. Someone could have been working on bug fixes or features that don't confidently misinform children.
09-07-2024 03:15 PM
Please, no more AI chatbot stuff. I do not want this in my browser.
09-07-2024 03:17 PM
I am vehemently opposed to a "feature" of this nature in Firefox. Please, if you care about the users of Firefox at all. Drop this immediately.
09-07-2024 03:23 PM
I'm incredibly disappointed that this feature has been added to Firefox. I hope it will be removed immediately in the next build, and that Mozilla won't go down this route again.
One of the reasons I changed my primary browser to Firefox is that its major competitors available on Windows - Chrome and Edge, owned by Google and Microsoft - were going all-in on LLM-style "AI" en**bleep**tification. I'm certain I'm far from the only Firefox user who can say this.
Other users have already patiently explained the problems with features such as this. From the complete lack of respect for users' privacy that comes with using models that scraped their learning data without permission, to the complete lack of ethical concern that comes with shipping a feature that will undoubtedly lie to your users. This is a bad idea, both as a feature in general and in terms of the effect it will likely have on Mozilla's reputation as a trusted and privacy respecting alternative to other major browsers. Being able to disable it is not enough, this feature should not be shipped with Firefox.
09-07-2024 04:15 PM
I'd be very interested to know in what way Mozilla expects people to find this useful.
09-07-2024 04:42 PM - edited 09-07-2024 04:48 PM
(The comment you are currently reading was posted by accident. If the moderators can delete it, they should.)
09-07-2024 05:09 PM
-1. I am vehemently opposed to the addition of any form of LLM or chat bot in Firefox.
The current implementation raises several major concerns.
The recent update that adds weather information to Firefox already demonstrates that Mozilla no longer can be trusted to keep my personal information private. Sharing my location with a third party without my explicit consent has already broken my trust. If an LLM has privileged access in the browser, especially an LLM operated by a corporation with a profit motive, then there is nothing stopping them from stealing and using my information aside from easily-broken promises.
If this experiment is continued, I will switch to another browser that actually provides the level of privacy and security that Firefox was once known for. I am not comfortable with it being optional; there is already precedent for new options being enabled without user consent. I want the functionality completely stripped from the browser. I want Mozilla to go back to Firefox's roots: A minimal web browser that users can customize with extensions.
09-07-2024 05:10 PM
Many people have made it clear AI should never be added to Firefox, and I want to add my two cents: I believe anyone who works for Firefox / Mozilla in any capacity that believes AI belongs in Firefox (or any Mozilla product) should resign immediately. The history of Firefox is all about privacy and that's why many people continue to use it. AI is not private and should never exist. If AI is integrated any further, I expect Firefox to lose tons of users and their respective donations.
As a website owner, I believe AI should never exist and all the data that any models has collected has been collected illegally.
09-07-2024 05:18 PM
The environmental effects of "AI services" content is appalling - it's cryptocurrency all over again, but worse. Mozilla's effort on this feature in Firefox is profoundly depressing. Please stop.
09-07-2024 05:20 PM - edited 09-07-2024 09:07 PM
So-called "AI" technology is unreliable, wasteful, and unethically built on the stolen work of smart, experienced and creative humans who never consented. It does not, and can not ever, do what it claims to do, other than give overpaid sentient office chairs a reason to lay off humans from their jobs and then re-hire them as contractors later. I don't care if it's optional. I don't care if I can turn it off or ignore it. AI is an absolute no-go. The very fact that you are treating this garbage as if it is worth any legitimate or serious interest outside the realm of legitimized corporate fraud is a testament to how far Mozilla has fallen in recent years. It's Herbalife for mediocre tech bros, and you should be ashamed to be associated with any of it.
I've ushered many people away from crappier browsers to Firefox over the years. I've also been been glad to financially support Mozilla in the past, most recently through paying for Mozilla VPN. That will end if you decide to engage with this grifter nonsense. End of discussion. You will not see another dollar or a single word of support from me ever again if AI integration makes it out of the nightly build. 👎
P.S. Don't play around and pretend that "spellcheck is actually AI" or whatever. You know exactly what people are calling you out for here. You're just trying to see what you can get away with. It's pathetic, it's transparent, and it won't absolve you of responsibility.
09-07-2024 05:30 PM
Yeah this sucks lmfao
09-07-2024 05:40 PM
don't waste time with AI gimmick that's gonna run out in ~2 years, just like nfts and blockchain before. AI is objectively bad at most tasks, bad for environment, bad for artists and writers and other creative folks, and it's gonna be bad marketing when it flops.
09-07-2024 05:45 PM - edited 09-07-2024 05:46 PM
I am of the hard "no, please no" camp on this one. I am increasingly tired of tech companies getting spooked by the idea that they're being "left behind" in the latest and greatest snake oil campaign. Just like how crypto had "legitimate use cases" people are saying AI has "legitimate use cases" but making reading comprehension worse and distributing misinformation is not something I'd particularly like in my web browser.
Much like how Firefox has pushed what I would consider industry-leading privacy features, and a dedication to an open and robust addon platform, I would like it if Firefox did the truly smart thing and shunned AI integration altogether. This garbage is already going to be built into Windows at the operating system level eventually anyway, so why bother to overflow the dumpster with two layers of it?
Just say no to AI.
09-07-2024 05:51 PM
As a Firefox user for 20 years and a Mozilla employee for 7 years, I strongly oppose the inclusion of these AI services into Firefox and will not use them. LLMs by design have ethical and environmental issues that using open source models or models running on device cannot fix.
09-07-2024 05:52 PM
Others have already made much more verbose and thoughtful arguments against the inclusion of AI in Firefox, so I'll just say this:
This whole thing stinks of trend-chasing and Kool-Aid-drinking. Firefox is one of the few good browser left, please don't ruin it. I don't want to have to move to yet another browser after having ditched Chrome for its BS, but I will if this makes it into a stable release of FF.
09-07-2024 06:15 PM
Ignoring the fact that this type of AI will never be useful for anyone, and that very few people actually want to use it, especially not firefox's primary userbase, do you earnestly think that it is a good business decision to invest in an economic bubble that is on the verge of popping? OpenAI is currently considering raising their prices, that should be all the evidence you need that this is, at the very least, a terrible idea.
09-07-2024 06:19 PM
Please for the love of god no why would AI even be desired, are all your posts in this thread just AI hallucinations?
09-07-2024 06:24 PM
no thank you, please stop making firefox worse. it's barely the last good web browser and the last thing we need is lake boiling liar machines to take it off that crumbling podium.
09-07-2024 06:25 PM
Please do not add AI services to Firefox. They have a clear track record of being scraped without permission, ignoring robots.txt, actively circumventing IP blocks and hallucinating dangerously wrong information. This is not a thing to be endorsing.
09-07-2024 06:27 PM
i do not and will not use AI and the continued pushing for a provably worse source of information is a waste of everyone's time and energy.
09-07-2024 06:31 PM
Bringing this AI nonsense to Firefox is actively driving me to seek another browser to use instead. If I wanted to use a browser made by an ad company that was cramming AI slop into the "experience", I'd still be using Chrome.
09-07-2024 06:36 PM
Please don't do this. People use Firefox because it's one of the only alternatives to the awful and violating chrome sphere, and embracing AI grifting nonsense and the inherent lack of care this technology has for the work of others is just showing everyone you have no idea what your actual user base uses your browser for. You're basically doing the sort of stuff Google does that people who use your browser want to escape.
09-07-2024 06:35 PM
Respectfully, I do not want AI touching this browser in any way. If this gets pushed I'm jumping ship to a fork without it. Plagiarism Engines can take a short hike off a long drop as far as I am concerned.
09-07-2024 06:42 PM
Oh no, please for the love of god do not inject this AI chatbot/image generation garbage into Firefox. It is clear that the overwhelming majority in here does not want any of these 'features'.
If you are misguided enough to go against everything firefox stands for and pursue this, keep it as a completely separate extension and not something that comes bundled with firefox.
God I despise this AI garbage.
09-07-2024 07:08 PM
AI is a financial liability, pending a bubble bursting upon the wide range of lawsuits around various industries that have embraced it. It has dramatically decreased users experience of using the web. It is a security risk and vulnerbility. It's use has significantly harmed numerous brands. These are not secrets. Do not integrate ai with mozilla.
09-07-2024 07:11 PM
I hate this.
09-07-2024 07:25 PM
Please steer clear of LLMs and machine learning for the time being, there are countless ethical, legal, logistical, and even just basic business issues that I have yet to see any company touting AI services manage to resolve in a remotely decent manner.
09-07-2024 07:26 PM
I have a lot of doubts that this would be very useful. LLMs still have a lot to prove in many respects of reliability, insight, energy usage, context awareness. This feature would be a mere gimmick against other features more conventionally developed and ran.
09-07-2024 07:25 PM - edited 09-07-2024 07:33 PM
Any AI features that Firefox rolls out I will disable. If I cannot disable the features, I will install an older version of Firefox that does not have those features and disable updates. I will sooner fork Firefox and maintain it myself then use a browser where these features are present.
Generative AI features like Chat GPT and image/audio/video generation are a bane on the modern internet, these products are blatant and obvious scams, and they are built on rampant theft, and it is a waste of time and resources to even bother integrating them into the browser when they will need to be depreciated in a couple of years when this obvious snake oil falls in on itself.