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!

[RusMcLaughlin]

Hey there! Loyal Firefox user for decades now.

It's good that this is an optional thing. Because if and when you add AI services to your sidebar as a permanent feature, I will delete Firefox off all my platforms and migrate to a different browser. 

I do not need another worthless AI spraying disinformation across my screen, which it has likely stolen from other people (and possibly me as well) and repackaged as Accurate with zero ability to recognize that people on the Internet talk a lot of **bleep**. And the fact that Mozilla has bought into these counterproductive, possibly illegal practices (along with their immense environmental deficits) honestly has me already researching other browsers with better priorities.

AI does have important use cases -- security comes to mind -- but this? No. Absolutely not.

[friendlyfrank]

Please do not bring in AI to firefox. It's horribly wasteful to the environment, often inaccurate to outright false in the information it presents, and just not a useful tool for what I want. My heart sank in my chest when firefox pushed an AI 'check reviews' tool while I was shopping! AI is part of why I swapped TO firefox in the first place.

[friendlyfrank]

Also, I am myself heavily disabled. Mentally and physically. So please no "Well for disabled people" nonsense.

[simonjadis]

Absolutely not. I have been strongly recommending Firefox for people who need a better browser. This garbage does not belong on this or any browser. I'm excited for  "AI" to go the way of NFTs, and every time that another product tries to push this on users, it prolongs this farce. Enough.

[ChrisWare]

Please keep this AI garbage out of our browser. Not only is it garbage, but it's terribly environmentally unfriendly. I don't want it and definitely don't need it.

[211rB]

As respectfully as possible, I'm begging everyone who has a hand in this to absolutely under no circumstances implement any of this "AI" stuff here.

It goes against just about everything that I love about firefox; in functionality, in the UI, and just...on principle. 

I wouldn't be pleased about it, but I would find a new browser to use. I hope my hand will not be forced, I love firefox! But my opposition to "AI" outweighs that enjoyment. I can and will do everything in my power to avoid offering an ounce of support for programs (and even just companies) that use it.

[rekishi]

oh no. no. why??? this is not necessary and we should have at least some place where we're not forced to be subjected to AI BS. if anyone wants to use AI let them but there are enough other browsers that have that. leave us alone! it just costs resources and won't have any added value.

[Tadaforever]

No thanks!!! No thanks with extreme prejudice!!

[lowikian]

I think having ai in the browser is not bad, altough you should always be able to disable it.

[Christ_OFF]

Please focus on making the best browser
AI could and should always be extensions
What could be a good reason to add AI inside Firefox ?
I can't find any

[zarky]

absolutely not. don't do this. you are better than this. Firefox is better than this. with everything getting AI crap shoehorned into it, be the one bastion of sanity that doesn't. Firefox needs to remain free from trendy bull**bleep** and be nothing else but a good secure browser with a focus on privacy.

NO AI IN FIREFOX

[lufthansel]

not today thanks. or ever.

[KateW]

PLEASE NO

[slbecker]

no ai ever, thanks

[odj]

keep this garbage out of firefox

[vinny1]

My suggestion would be to do it like DuckduckGo: they have a page that provides a layer to these chatbots, so you don't have to access their pages or provide personal accounts. I think this improves privacy for these closed source chatbots.

[bmagouirk]

Firefox has been one of the few bastions of integrity on this hellscape of an internet -- please do not add AI tools, features, etc, to Firefox.

[Kyoria]

I do not understand why i would need any AI features in my browser of choice.  Firefox is not missing anything for me.  Let users make ai addons - again not sure of a use case for ai and this post doesnt say much at all - if needed.  If people want ai features, wouldnt the community create?

[AraSigyrn]

This is an awful idea. You should NOT do this

[sdaugust]

"AI" is a plague. It's fueled by huge amounts of data theft and somehow even more energy waste, and it fills the internet with misinformation and regurgitated data sludge. There are actual use cases for it (i.e. generating new proteins) but this is not one of them. I thought Mozilla was one of the few organizations that could be counted on not to drink the Kool-Aid on this, but I guess not.

[LordTheodore13]

Please get rid of this.

[Flutteringhorde]

Very weird to be adding this a feature when the bubble around AI is deflating and most of these services are unlikely to exist or be paywalled in another year. Why waste development time on this when it's very clearly not sticking around?

[BirdBits]

I find it concerning that an organization I want to trust re: online security and ethical use of the internet is buying into the hype of an unreliable and unsustainable gimmick. Stop lending credibility to these things, the misinformation is dangerous and the resources could be used for better things.

[vbfdoee]

I cannot overstate how disappointed I am to see Mozilla join in on the bandwagon of companies imposing unwanted, ineffective, and wasteful AI "features" onto their users. I use Mozilla products because I appreciate that y'all are different from the Googles, Microsofts, and Apples of the world that are driven by investor groupthink over making useful software, but this proposal forces me to reevaluate that naive impression. It's even more disappointing to see this come up this far into the AI hype bubble, when it's so clear that these systems aren't the magic beans they were sold as, and that users as a whole simply don't need or want them.

[licotain]

We don't need ai in a browser.

[jessiomg]

Pls do not. I might as well be using chrome!

[silveredfoxes]

Please no. I have yet to have even one (1) good experience with an AI bot, but even if they were a good replacement for customer service, even if generative AI created good writing or art, the environmental impact alone would be reason enough to say no.

This bubble is also going the same way Crypto did but at double time. So it's just a bad decision, business-wise, to get involved at this point.

[Remie]

Made an account for the sole purpose of telling you to scrap this garbage ASAP. In the meantime I'll be researching alternatives to your browser.

[bsideheart]

NO NO NO NO NO. no ai in my firefox please no

[Funkythresher]

Please don't. I do not want AI in my web browser.

[Olindrax]

Please don't add this to Firefox. AI is, at best, a parrot that takes a ridiculous amount of energy and stolen input from writers around the world to rephrase information; at worst, it uses that stolen input to make up convincing nonsense. Even ignoring the issue of training data, there is no use case I have seen for generative AI. And trust me, I've honestly looked for one.

You are adding a feature that will take up space in the GUI and confuse users, all for no benefit. Firefox doesn't need this. No program needs this!

[epilogue]

hi, PLEASE do not do this, there is so much AI everywhere I do not need it infiltrating my web browser! It's so bad for the environment and literally just gets in the way.

[altoonaxc]

Avoiding unwanted and unneeded "features" like this are part of why I use Firefox over a Chromium browser. It's just going to be a sad little appendix that needs removed as the AI fad collapses on itself.

[Michael_Mock]

Please no, just don't do it.

[Wolvereaux]

I'd rather not have AI features on firefox - tbh, a feature to turn off Google's automatic AI features would be stellar!

[boldiegoldie]

no

[apz]

I get it that jumping on the AI hype train can prevent the tech-FOMO for software developers, but in this case could we just have this feature as something that can be completely yanked out. I'd hate if I'd have to put one more thing on my long list of software and products I avoid so I don't have to deal with the force-fed AI "features".

[bogwitch]

Don't. Honestly, can any of you just listen to your god **bleep** user base for once.

[PlutonianCicada]

Absolutely not interested in AI, and disappointed to see Firefox employing it even as an optional feature. No one wants this.

[cristianer]

Contrary to most here, I like AI in the sidebar. Just add the most used ones and better if they are open source like Llama. Thanks.