Share your feedback on the AI services experiment in Nightly

[asafko]

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!

[Glaurung]

No.  Do not want.  Do not want plagiarism machine in my browser, do not want BS generator in my browser. Please stop following the mindless tech herd. 

[sweetgrease]

Not a feature I want, need, or recommend to anyone or anything. I feel this feature would just bloat my searchbar, not to mention it negates the purpose of having a search browser in the first place. This would not be a good investment of time or money and I feel that most of the Firefox userbase can agree--at least on a small scale--that the reason they use the Firefox browser is the browser's renowned refusal to cater to trends and advertisers in the interest of preserving the user's experience and patience. Don't make this AI mistake--because it will be a mistake.

[SynCallio]

Please don't! It doesn't add any value to anything.

[cervine_online]

do you want to be microsoft edge? Stop

[unforth]

Please, I am begging you, do not add generative AI or AI answering features to Firefox. If you absolutely feel you must, please make them incredibly easy to deactivate and guarantee they're not tracking keystrokes or anything insane like that.

[RomeoRomeoTango]

I don't want AI anywhere near my Firefox, thank you very much.

[casualfruit]

Please do not do this. I am so sick of AI being everywhere. It is actively degrading the internet and in many ways information as a whole. 

Not to mention the fact that it takes SO MUCH ENERGY AND WATER to run these programs. This summer ChatGPT was maxing out energy grids while people were told to turn down their AC and use less water. If you care about being environmentally conscious, you MUST avoid integrating unnecessary AI programs into Firefox. 

[thomasm]

I just learned about LibreWolf thanks to this AI "experiment," please don't drive me away with any more embracing of AI.

[kenmarable]

I already switched from Chrome to Firefox because of Google's misguided AI plans. If Mozilla continues down this path, I will happily find another web browser.

Are you able to provide evidence to any of the following:

1. Was the data used in the training of these AI services acquired ethically?
2. Are the responses actually accurate, especially when it comes to areas where there can be significant harm from misinformation?
3. What is the energy consumption of the AI services Mozilla is looking to provide easy access to?
4. In training and improving the AI services, are workers paid fairly, or is it the "sweatshop" style over seas companies AI services typically use?

Without adequate answers to all of these, Mozilla will be guilty of jumping on the same unethical, destructive, money chasing bandwagon that so many other tech companies are burning billions on. The AI bubble is going to burst, and the damage to our economy from their short sighted races to outdo each other is going to be massive. Only bright side is it might thankfully happen soon enough that the environmental damage will not be as severe.

This is a terrible path to begin down. Be better.

[kamigoat]

Please please PLEASE reconsider adding AI to Firefox, AI doesn't do anything to a browser but make it worse

[lordophios21]

If it's not too late, my suggestion would be to ditch the entire project and strongly disavow any and all use of generative AI on all Mozilla platforms.

thank you.

[Nincodedo]

There is no place for AI in a browser.

[vvisvesw]

I think others have stated their reasoning more eloquently than I, but absolutely do not incorporate this feature. AI is unethically trained, totally antithetical to privacy, and a huge drain on the environment. It will be a spit in the face to what Mozilla is meant to stand for if you incorporate AI in any meaningful fashion as it stands now, and you WILL lose users over it. I have enjoyed using Firefox just fine. Don't make me switch.

Thanks.

[Christopholes]

Please do not add AI features to Firefox

[DasGanon]

Absolutely not. No thank you.

[MissEspresso]

this is honestly a god awful idea and the entire reason i switched to firefox was to escape stuff like this

please don’t do this, firefox is meant to be safe and private, AI is not

[WillowDraven]

Nooooooo! No. NO! THIS! CAN! BE! A! PLUG-IN!

DO NOT BLOAT! ESPECIALLY WITH AI!!!

[louklkl]

Please don't do this. I don't want my data sold for a shady AI company whose entire existence is based on stealing content. And don't get me started on how much these companies pollute. No, no, and no thank you.

[darby3]

I'm truly disgusted by the addition of AI features and code to the Firefox browser. This is a total waste of everyone's time and energy. Please cease this pointless experiment now.

[firefly86]

I think this is a terrible idea, given the myriad of ethical and environmental concerns surrounding this kind of AI usage. I urge you to reconsider.

[alli]

No, thank you. One reason for my loyalty to firefox is that I can use it without feeling like everything I do is mined and exploited. Please keep that trash out of here.

[thedrellum]

AI is not only an energy sink, it fails to even do what it promises. Keep it out of Firefox.

[darkefyre]

I literally only made a mozilla account in order to say I do NOT want AI in my browser. I use firefox in order to get AWAY from the stupid policy choices of Google, especially the data selling and AI integration.

I really don't want to have to start looking for a new alternative browser but it looks like I might be.

[seeker]

I appreciate Firefox as a browser that is clean and gives me control. AI is the exact opposite of what I want; I will be seeking out every possible option to turn it off, hide it, and remove it. I do not want this feature, and it makes me trust Firefox less. I appreciate that you have at least made it opt in, but it feels like this is the beginning of a slippery slope to stupidity.

[bearfeeder]

AI or anything else that scrapes information from me is a violation of the core reason I use Firefox: respect for my privacy.

Stop doing AI and focus on the core browsing features. That's why Mozilla exists.

[CaptainCharles]

NOOOOO!

NO!

JUST NO!

ABSOLUTELY NOT!

[Char]

I'm asking you to please not do this to your userbase. There's plenty of other companies currently forcing generative computer algorythms on their users, please don't become one of them. I, like many, will have to lock myself into a non-"AI" version of firefox, or seek another solution for my browsing purposes. Please, please, please rethink this decision.

[feoh]

Given Mozilla's privacy mission, would you consider adding support for locally run LLM interfaces like ollama?

[TaliaB]

I do not want generative AI anywhere near my browser data and If I wanted someone to confidently lie to me, I’d watch Fox News.

If you implement this I will change browsers.

[happybertday]

One of the reasons I'm with Firefox is because I wanted a browser that wouldn't get into the AI foolishness, due to the potential plagiarism and misinformation issues, the massive environmental cost, and the fact that most of what it does well can be easily done with a Google search. Please reconsider adding it in.

[MLynn]

Please don't. I use Firefox specifically to get away from all this AI garbage companies are pushing on everyone.

[Zefram]

We didn't ask for this and we clearly don't want it.

If you want to join Google and Microsoft in a race for the "ensh**ification" of the internet then you'll do it without the userbase that chose your product specifically as an alternative to the more damaging ones. 

[Naate]

No one asked for this. Be better.

[F317C]

Absolutely do not do this. Your users DO NOT WANT this "functionality" AT ALL in ANY WAY. Get it out of Firefox. Stop it. You will lose users over it. This is a terrible, terrible decision.

[Jon]

Hey community,

Jumping in here real quick. We appreciate the feedback and activity in this thread, even (and often especially) when we're not in agreement, but please remember the Community Guidelines when posting to Connect. Be kind and show respect when sharing constructive criticism - this helps our discussions stay as productive as possible.

Hope this helps and feel free to let me know if you have any questions.

[feoh]

Hi Jon! Thanks for that. I agree that keeping the discourse civil and constructive is super important, and I do have a couple of questions which are intended to be helpful and illustrative for the folks who aren't holding torches and pitchforks 🙂

- How does this fit with Mozilla and Firefox's core values around consumer / user privacy?
- Might adding the option to at least use local LLMs running on the user's own machine help?

Thanks for providing this forum. Having a place to post feedback is indeed very helpful.

[Drewbahr]

Please, instead of considering your feelings, consider the resounding negative reception of this terrible idea. This is an instructive moment for you and your company.

[Ceropegiosity]

Tell us that you are synthesising a Frankenstein's monster and the villagers will bring out their pitchforks and torches. People have died from using "AI" generated foraging "books". The more this sad mimicry of human art and science is given credence by unthinking commercialisation, the more people will die. Either directly from lethal misinformation or from isolation from real human contact as the internet fills with fakery. It is already difficult to find real websites among the fakes.

[vincentj]

@JonMozilla has been showing disdain to the Firefox community for ages.  Firefox keeps rolling out hated changes and ignoring community feedback, and top-voted ideas have been ignored and unanswered for years at this point.

It's no surprise that you're getting disrespectful responses when Mozilla has been disrespecting our feedback for so long.  If you want healthy discussions, you can start by actually listening to our feedback and fixing the things that WE have been saying for years.

You won't get civility by enforcing community guidelines; you will get it by rebuilding your relationship with the community, and that starts by LISTENING and ACTING on our feedback.

[MaxwellM]

All modern AI services are made possible through the violation of user privacy and the theft of user data. I switched to Firefox because it promised to actually protect my privacy compared to the likes of Google. So if Mozilla betrays that promise by insisting on making AI part of Firefox, I will find another browser that can be counted on to actually honor its promises to protect user privacy.