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!

[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.

[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.

[Tae]

Please no!

[geodudette]

I use Firefox every day and I do not want AI to have any part in it.

[LizSheIz]

Please don't. Firefox works to show me web pages and that's really, truly all I want from it!

[LizTheGM]

Not just no but HELL no.  Get that harmful, dangerous, forest-burning, water-guzzling, disinformation-machine crap outta here.

[cuppamoon]

NO

[Silentfox]

Please don't add AI.

[sequentialkady]

Take your climate-raping, planet trashing AI and piss-off out of the solar system deep into the interstellar medium.

[vulpes]

Please rescind

[Internet]

NO AI KILL AI NOW

[emmatonkss]

I hate AI, and I dont want it added to the optional features. This hurts anyone who makes nice stuff for a living, i dont want your drivel

[captPickerd]

I would prefer this not be part of my Firefox experience. I've been a long-time Firefox user because I appreciate user privacy. Everything about AI goes against this and I will look elsewhere if this is the direction that Mozilla want to take this project.   

[Drewbahr]

Just, no. Please, don't do this. Don't burn down a forest for a **bleep**ty chatbot.

[kelpkelp]

NO! HARD NO! DO NOT PUT AI IN YOUR PRODUCT!!! I USE FIREFOX BECAUSE IT'S GOOD, NOT BECAUSE IT CAN SHOVEL STOLEN MUSH DOWN MY THROAT! WHAT KIND OF PRIVACY FOCUSED PRODUCT IS BUILT ON THE THEFT MACHINE? NO AI EVER!!!!!!!!!

[Paperbag]

Hi, Mozilla.

Please do not do this. Please do not make the same mistake that every other big company is doing now. Please consider your userbase and realize that none of us want this.

Thanks.

[Rosaeve]

I am sick and tired of AI being shoved in my face at every step. I don't want it, I'll never want it. I switched to firefox because it was against so many of google's dumb ideas and now you're trying to insert the dumbest one. Don't do this, scrap this now

[anto]

Generative AI is an unethical copyright-violating plague and its use should not be facilitated or encouraged.