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!

[Alys]

Please do Not add AI, I've started using Firefox to escape them cause they honestly don't improve anything (the opposite really).

[LegalGraffiti]

Do this and I’ll switch back to chrome.

[soup123]

Please no, I use firefox because you don't use AI. I would very much like it, if you do to have a way to opt out of it. Thank you for your time

[DR98]

I usually consider Firefox to be the last major web browser that actually puts usability and privacy first, and while I can see how one might think that adding AI features might forward it as a platform, it would make me inclined to seek out a different browser that does not feature AI. The current state of AI seems to hinder the user more than help, often acting more as a crutch, deleterious to a user's ability to actively think and research, not to mention the often morally dubious ways training data is gathered and the massive amounts of energy and resources used to generate AI material.

I will not be swayed on this. Please reconsider.

[GrannyGoodTea]

I really hope this doesn't get added to Firefox, that would be a real disappointment. It's been clear from the jump that AI in this capacity is not just worthless, but actively pollutes the internet with worthless and often false information. That combined with the severe costs of running it both electrically and in terms of natural resources is egregious. I specifically avoid using search engines with AI inputs, it literally just worsens my experience. I would really hope y'all would do better than fall in line with this very obviously destructive tech that's quite literally worthless functionality wise.

[LM_13]

No. I have no idea how or where this AI was built, you give me no information on how it collects data to learn. Nope please. Let me do things my way, let me put in the work, let me research from trusted journals, not something that spits out garbage.

[Anonymous]

1000% no. I do not need to test the feature to know that I emphatically do not want it. Further, I will not test the feature, and will discontinue using Firefox wherever possible if it is implemented on a widescale

[ocsenave]

Please don't make this into a mainstream firefox tool.  There are people who are excited about computer-generated assistance, and they should be able to turn on AI tools if they want, but in my opinion, the default experience should remain free of synthetic conversational sludge.

Please count me as a firm vote against this kind of development.  There are better ways to spend developer hours.

[leaving_a_compl]

No AI please--it's super detrimental to the environment and is just not all that useful. I don't trust it to do anything well bc generative AI doesn't know how to think or anything; it's just good at predicting words to put in a certain order that sound convincing. It's a bad investment, and a lot of people will be put off by it because of ethnics concerns (the environment, plus stealing from writers and artists). I like Firefox because it feels different from "mainstream" tech. Seeing companies I like hop on the AI bandwagon leaves a sour taste in my mouth.

[meryah]

I have been going out of my way to avoid as many AI web services as I can. Please do not make me try find another web browser. I have no interest in any AI services and never will.

[Selemei]

No, absolutely not. It's an ethical nightmare and the results are bull**bleep** and it's a complete waste of money for Mozilla and it destroys the environment, all in one expensive package! KEEP AI OUT.

[70000Lemons]

Man what the heck. I thought firefox was the browser to get away from this garbage.

[Rin]

No. Created an account just to respond to this thread.

[ButtercupBoopy]

Absolutely not please and no thank you! Someone teach me how to lock my version into the older one permanently. 

[mimarillo]

For the love of all that is holy, NO. I do not need AI nonsense anywhere on my browser. And don't even think about the unethical monstrosity that is gen AI.

[Glowingstrbtght]

I am uninterested in any kind on AI being a part of Firefox. I consider AI to be unethical both in how it builds its data sets and in its environmental impact. The inclusion of AI in the Firefox browser makes me more likely to switch to another option.

[glooom-bloom]

I use Firefox specifically to avoid AI. If you add this, you will have betrayed me and I will never trust Mozilla again.

[CaitG]

For the love, PLEASE don't. AI ruins everything.

[araneiform]

absolutely not. this browser is meant to be separate from all the corporate sludge by providing good service while keeping our privacy, why would you throw that all away for AI that destroys the environment and actively oppresses workers in the global south

[bkliepma]

ABSOLUTELY NOT.

[fakekiwi]

Hi! I don't want this!

[AlTheMinotaur]

No

[Eternitydeath]

Love firefox! Don't do this!

[ovvlish]

I don't really understand what the point of adding an AI bar to a browser is. I'm using the internet - what is AI going to do? Browse the internet for me? I may as well log off forever. Please don't trend follow, I already switched to you across devices to get away from the incessant AI stuff, it would be a real bummer if it were to ever become a default fixture here too. I know right now it's opt-in, but that's always how it starts.

[inkbloy]

Mozilla, you gave us a safe haven in this crappy digital storm. Why would you rip that away from us? You invite the rain and the flood in through the front door and tell it to have a seat next to the fireplace.

We love our house but if this shelter is no longer safe for us, we will abandon it to seek other lodging.

[kzdepski]

Please don't do this. Not having to wade through AI garbage is one of the reasons I use Firefox.

[filixinfinitio]

Firefox is supposed to be simple and private. AI is neither. Please consider dropping this

[queenofzan]

Adding AI to Firefox is pointless. People who want to use AI can easily access it; people who don't want to use AI are tired of having it added to things unnecessarily.

Also, it is unclear what "AI services" in this context means. If it is generative text or images, that is environmentally harmful and potentially dangerous, as we have recently seen with Google AI search summaries suggesting suicidal people should jump off of bridges, or AI-driven mushroom guides giving incorrect and potentially deadly information about identifying safe mushrooms.

I do not see any value in adding vaguely-defined AI services to Firefox, and it could potentially be irresponsible. I'm not sure why you would do this.

[greenbird]

Things I want my browser to do:

• Go to the url I've entered
• Minimize the number of cookies, ads, and myriad other trackers that wind up on my device
• Securely handle the processing of personal and financial data

Things I do not want my browser to do:

• Connect my browsing to an AI, thereby feeding my data back into an LLM and creating backdoors for collecting passwords and banking information.

Every time another company announces they're incorporating AI into their software my first response is to find a way to a) disable it or b) revert to a previous upgrade. If neither is possible, I just switch programs.

[Lyons]

[Thunderlina]

PLEASE GOD NO! I and many, many others are sick and tired of having AI nonsense we don't want shoved down our throats. There are more than enough ways to access AI tools today as it is, anyone who wants to use AI has more than enough methods to do so. It absolutely does not need to be integrated into every goddamn piece of software out there just because it's the hot new trend in the tech world.

[Lunastories]

Please don’t add AI to the browser it’s the one safe haven from this madness. AI as it is now is by definition anti-people and exploitive as it is trained on content without the consent of the creators. If the foundations goal is to be for the people as it claims then support humans and don’t add this AI nonsense to the browser. Thank you. 

[ArcaneQuark]

Please don't. It's bloat, and it's antithetical to the idea of firefox being a private and secure browser. Just... don't.

[lilulii]

No, please I can't take this environment destructive bs anymore. AI is bad, is that really that hard to understand? It sucks everywhere it was implemented and I love firefox, please don't destroy this as well T-T

[shakesthewizard]

"... to see if it's a useful addition to Firefox." It's not. It's a massive labor & privacy violation, and it's a huge ecological problem. Firefox is supposed to be the browser that holds itself to a higher standard than the megacorporations that run the internet, and the addition of this "feature" is a slap in the face to your entire userbase. Do better.

[meansandends]

Please please don't do this. "AI" is a massive waste of resources for minimal, if any, utility.

[LoveMachine]

No AI in Firefox. Don't die the hero, continue to be the hero by listening to your users. 

[k_tollefs]

Just don't

[ladytauria]

I would prefer not to have an AI. They’re unreliable sources of information and are often trained on stolen content.

[GhostlyLatte]

Please do not implement AI at all, period. It's harmful for people, and damaging for the environment, and we don't want nor need it. I'd rather not have to stop using Firefox when it's usually so good about not doing awful things like this.