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!

[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. 

[Eir13]

I'd rather not have that feature at all. It's bad enough that the IA is in every other corner of the internet, so I'd at least have a browser where I'm not forced to use IA.

[WallRena]

If experimental, overreaching generative response algorithms masquerading as AI are used in Mozilla, I cannot use this browser in good faith. The privacy I value from this browser would simply be gone.

[DoNotUseGenAI]

Been a big fan of FF for years now. Please don't do this; I'll stop supporting immediately and will encourage others to do the same. 

[Begemot]

I hate it, please remove all AI garbage immediately.

[sparksfires]

The only reason I use Firefox is for privacy and security - why on earth would I want it to implement the AI models that are actively scraping my posts and writings online? I'll switch browsers yet again if anyone has recommendations for ones that are actually free of AI integration.

[gir02]

seconding this. the way AI works now requires an inherent breach of privacy. please god don't add AI features to firefox

[gir02]

please don't. please don't add ai features. we are asking you so nicely

[malonkey1]

If you put AI in my browser then so help me I will go back to Netscape.

[Aelfern]

In my opinion, AI goes against the core values of Firefox, and the reasons I use it as a browser. I value my privacy and security, and AI programs are typically created from unethically harvested data, as well as harvesting your information when you use them. Having an AI program available in the browser would make me uncomfortable, and make Firefox feel less trustworthy.

Aside from privacy concerns, I don't value AI as a useful tool, it is too often incorrect, or produces works that are copies of others creations. If I did want to use AI, I would rather use a separate program, not one that is ingrained in my browser.

[LuckyPersona]

Absolutely not. I use firefox to specifically get away from this bull **bleep**. 

[WoofTree]

Absolutely NO AI please. I've been toting Firefox for the past 20 years as one of the last bastions of good, usable internet, and unfortunately AI in its current model is awful, pointless, and actively harmful to users, the environment, and the internet itself. Since current models only scrape from the internet and put together words, phrases, and/or images without understanding what its actually saying or creating, it can present absolute garbage as pure fact. See "Glue is a good ingredient on pizza."

Everything regarding AI will (hopefully) blow over within the next year similar to the NFT boom. It's all a scam that investors are pressuring their companies into because they don't actually understand what it is. Please don't do this!

[aerynvala]

Please, for the love of Earth, do not use any form of AI. ffs

[aliceunderstudy]

Hey, don't put AI in firefox. Tech AI is primarily awful and Firefox is like the one safe place we have from it. We don't want it.

[AwesumIndustrys]

Oh good god no. We need less of this grift, not more of it. 

[liamg]

I am against the use of so called "AI" for environmental and ethical reasons.

The continued inclusion of "AI" in Firefox will cause me to change my browser.

[islaelrick]

NO

[yag]

please don't put AI into firefox!

[uhun]

Please no, AI is actually the worst thing in the world. It's spread so much horrible misinformation and it makes everything SO much more difficult for no reason. Please keep that out of Mozilla or I'll be one of many who has to find another browser to use 😕

[Nymlok]

Not only do I HATE AI in all its forms,  but integrating Ai into Firefox,  the one browser not pulled into the mire of useless AI trash, UNFORGIVABLE.

DON'T DO THIS.  THIS FUNCTION IS CRAP. STOP BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE AND YOU SPEND BILLIONS ON A HOLE IN THE GROUND!

[Soreile]

Don't you dare. I left Chrome over this AI crap and I will leave Firefox too.

Edit:

To expand a bit, this is an incredibly unwise feature to add. Financially speaking, most people who use Firefox over its competitors do so for a reason, yeah? Adding genAI in any form to Firefox is like a health foods shop announcing that it's going to start using GMO corn and soybeans in their products. It is almost antithetical to the desires of the customer-base/userbase and will absolutely lead to users leaving en masse to the next best option.

[GP1]

No. Stop wasting time with useless garbage nobody asked for.

[spacevolcanoes]

I can’t think of anything I want less than AI being used in Firefox. No AI is the whole reason I switched to Firefox in the first place

[4ardy]

ABSOLTUELY NOT????

[tampinata]

horrid idea

[Rikuredo]

I would also like to state my vehement stance against this AI addition. On google and other services it’s been wholly unhelpful, and it would only worsen the browser that’s my current go-to choice. 

please do not add this on to Firefox, it’ll only make a great browser worse to use and ruin the comfort that comes from using one of the few more open source untouched browsers.