06-21-2024 11:55 AM - last edited on 10-18-2024 02:19 PM by Jon
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 08:42 AM
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.
09-09-2024 08:49 AM
Please consider moveing this "AI module" into an addon to allow users to remove it. Thank you.
09-09-2024 08:47 AM
GOD NO PLEASE. A.I is incredibly unsafe and flawed!! I BEG OF YOU!!!
09-09-2024 08:48 AM
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.
09-09-2024 08:49 AM
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.'
09-09-2024 08:50 AM
Please, PLEASE do not add AI. You're the last bastion of sensibility and I don't want to have to switch browsers. Please!
09-09-2024 08:53 AM
Absolutely NOT
09-09-2024 08:54 AM
firefox adding ai would be the last straw in my miserable life tbh please dont
09-09-2024 08:55 AM
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
09-09-2024 08:56 AM
Please do not add so called AI to the web browser. It will not be an improvement, it will be a detriment.
09-09-2024 08:57 AM
Absolutely NO AI.
09-09-2024 09:00 AM
No, please no!!
09-09-2024 09:03 AM
Please, please, no. I use Firefox to avoid ill considered "features" no one actually wants.
09-09-2024 09:03 AM
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.
09-09-2024 09:05 AM
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.
09-09-2024 09:06 AM
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.
09-09-2024 09:11 AM
I hate it, please remove all AI garbage immediately.
09-09-2024 09:11 AM
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.
09-09-2024 09:14 AM
seconding this. the way AI works now requires an inherent breach of privacy. please god don't add AI features to firefox
09-09-2024 09:13 AM
please don't. please don't add ai features. we are asking you so nicely
09-09-2024 09:14 AM
If you put AI in my browser then so help me I will go back to Netscape.
09-09-2024 09:14 AM - edited 09-09-2024 09:17 AM
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.
09-09-2024 09:14 AM
Absolutely not. I use firefox to specifically get away from this bull **bleep**.
09-09-2024 09:15 AM
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!
09-09-2024 09:15 AM
Please, for the love of Earth, do not use any form of AI. ffs
09-09-2024 09:14 AM
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.
09-09-2024 09:16 AM
Oh good god no. We need less of this grift, not more of it.
09-09-2024 09:16 AM
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.
09-09-2024 09:17 AM
NO
09-09-2024 09:17 AM
please don't put AI into firefox!
09-09-2024 09:18 AM
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 😕
09-09-2024 09:20 AM
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!
09-09-2024 09:21 AM - edited 09-09-2024 09:40 AM
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.
09-09-2024 09:21 AM
No. Stop wasting time with useless garbage nobody asked for.
09-09-2024 09:24 AM
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
09-09-2024 09:25 AM
ABSOLTUELY NOT????
09-09-2024 09:26 AM
horrid idea
09-09-2024 09:27 AM
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.
09-09-2024 09:29 AM
I absolutely do not want AI in my browser, even as an option. It's an environmental and a privacy disaster I never, ever want to have anything to do with. Please, keep Firefox out of this nightmare, or I will have a very hard time indeed to keep using and recommanding it instead of a fork of Chrome.
09-09-2024 09:29 AM
horrid idea. how is integrating AI inline with firefox's supposed commitment to preserving user privacy?