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!

[cheeseandthanky]

Currently, I use and highly recommend firefox. I am able to circumvent the ai that Google uses, I have no interest in circumventing further ai but if firefox chooses to integrate it after this woefully misguided series of decisions pushed (no doubt) by investors, I will have no choice. Analytical ai has uses and some value, but application of ai for generative or search purposes or organization of algorithms is a waste of resources like energy and is at best, an annoyance. It does not increase, but rather reduces efficacy and you will alienate a large portion of your users base.

[mapleroo]

Nope. Don't want anything to do with it. I turn AI features off of everything that tries to push it.

[astrognash]

Please don't do this. LLMs are universally trained on stolen data and there is no ethical use case for them. Adding them to Firefox is wholly contrary to its mission and I consider adding this feature to be an active attack on intellectual property rights and privacy rights.

[Devo-OS]

Please, if there is any soul left, have nothing to do with the so called AI junk!

EDIT: I have currently disabled Firefox'es ability to update, out of my dislike of this possibility.

[legowerewolf]

Generative AI: ❌

[pbjplatypus]

Not a fan of the way generative AI produces incorrect information. In addition, I don't want or need my browser to act as a soundboard nor a rubber duck. Please don't waste your time with generative ML - it's to no one's benefit.

[littlebirdy]

PLEASE reconsider adding AI in any capacity. In addition to concerns around using creative work without permission to train generative AI, it's so bad for the environment. I don't want to see Firefox use generative AI in any capacity .

[np95]

absolutely not

[Myriads]

That’s a no from me, dawg

[oddmara]

I think the reason a lot of people like firefox, myself included, is the fact that we can stay away from all of the chrome bull**bleep** - having a reliable search engine that gives me ressources that answer the search terms I put in the engine is one of those things that chrome doesn't do anymore, in large part thanks to AI. Aditionally AI is so polluting while also being generally worse than what we already have, so there really is no point into this. I don't think I'd keep using Firefox if it too added AI.

[Ott]

No. No AI at all. It is too problematic on too many levels. I want to have an oasis away from it on Firefox. 

[IanWAdams]

Please, no one wants this.

[steviebea]

please no….

[Juice]

Please please don't 

I use Firefox because I don't support the integration of AI into every aspect of my life and if Firefox makes this change I will have to reconsider what browser I'll be using.

[duckfort]

Please do not

[okaydokie]

I appreciate the insensitive for wanting to try new features, but ai is not even close to a place where it will be useful. No matter how hard you try to make it as accurate as possible for info, it will always pull from other ai answers and will only provide incorrect information. Which will only push FireFox users away, just like what Google and other corps are doing.

I love FireFox and all it does to provide the best browsing experience for users. Just. Please don't start using ai. No one likes it

[j_j_b]

Please don't.  This is a waste of my browser space (both visual space and memory) to add literally zero value to my web experience. I thought Mozillla was better than just following the hype train down whatever weird hole it leads to.

[demtatin]

To quote Hamlet, act III, scene III, line 92: 

No

[nofoxer]

Absolutley not, throw the trash in the garbage

[osier]

I'm wholly against adding AI to the browser and want nothing to do with it.

[hackerbug]

NO

[blackseascar]

My big creative suggestion is that we leave this kind of work for extensions. I do not want an AI service option enabled by default. I use Firefox because it is the privacy friendly browser, and the modern AI chat products are explicitly created from broad-strokes violations of privacy at every level. There are more open source browsers that are a little less convenient to use which would become much more attractive if they were able to contrast by not forcing AI integration onto their users. 

Please devote these engineering hours to something else. Thank you!

[Furrama]

No thank you. AI generation companies stole from us, from everyone, and we don't want them anywhere in our products/lives.

[zestylimeade]

I don't want any sort of generative or "smart" ai. Everything is trying to integrate it, it does nothing of value, and it's never helpful, it's either ignorable at best or almost always flat out annoying.

you guys can use your resources so much better

[ricrlw]

I started using Firefox to get away from all of the unavoidable AI bull**bleep** from other browsers, if this gets instated even as an optional feature I will switch to something like librewolf

[peps20]

I also strongly disagree with the inclusion of LLMs for everyone, regardless of if we use them or not. I do not want Firefox, which I switched to explicitly because I was tired of the privacy issues with other browsers, to implement a tool that is built on stealing people's data, artwork, writing, etc., and then using it to write repetitive garbage. Regardless of if the tool claims to protect the privacy of the person using it, the use of LLMs is antithetical to privacy, which is supposed to be one of the major tenets of Firefox. I do not want this in my Firefox, I do not want it to have a seamless integration, and I am massively disappointed in Firefox for doing this. Put this in an extension for the people who do want this if you must implement it somehow.

[Ceropegiosity]

Absolutely not. There is no usecase for AI that excuses the electricity footprint. Also, it is poisoning the human experience, even more so than the algorithms that encourage vile behaviour on social media. We need to encourage positive human interaction, not the proliferation of fake human artefacts that take time and effort to separate from real human productions. It does not matter if it is optional or not - please don't do it. Too many people and corporations will be tempted to lose themselves in the rabbitholes of unreal large language models and image generators that are, in no way, intelligent.

[webenjoyer]

DELETE. Generative AI is awful, inhumane technology. It robs us of our reason for living, to struggle through the vines our individual lives have grown on the bed of our unique influences, to find something new (TO US). Ironically, it does this by looking at what we've already said and done. On top of that, anti-humanists make money off of it all. I wholly reject this technology and anyone who purveys it.

Fire every "pro-AI" person you have and then maybe Firefox has a chance.

Don't rob me of my creative serendipity bro.

[Anonymous]

Please consider moveing this "AI module" into an addon to allow users to remove it. Thank you.

[AppleJuiceDeer]

GOD NO PLEASE. A.I is incredibly unsafe and flawed!! I BEG OF YOU!!!

[garzaj42]

Absolutely not.

AI has NO actual use-case. Its only function is to appear correct. Actual useful output happens only by chance, and is indistinguishable from incorrect information.

This addition would only serve to harm the user experience.

[seththemuse]

AI has a long way to go before it's going to be useful, and it's frustrating that it's still harmful to the environment. Also, isn't it trained on basically stolen data? Predictive text isn't really good for a lot of things. I don't really understand why you're trying to do this in general beyond 'AI is a hot topic with certain parties right now and we want to jump on the bandwagon.'

[lanterloo]

Please, PLEASE do not add AI. You're the last bastion of sensibility and I don't want to have to switch browsers. Please!

[mysteriousStar]

Absolutely NOT

[azzyAzeph]

firefox adding ai would be the last straw in my miserable life tbh please dont

[Parsnipp]

Stay as a privacy safe browser. Data is 'secure' until one day it's leaked and then it's not. I don't want to be part of this

[Diagoras87]

Please do not add so called AI to the web browser. It will not be an improvement, it will be a detriment.

[Mleem]

Absolutely NO AI.

[Akaihane]

No, please no!!

[Squeakyfrommage]

Please, please, no. I use Firefox to avoid ill considered "features" no one actually wants.