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!

[Red_Changing]

Please do not add AI to Firefox. AI in it's current form ranges from either completely useless to actively harmful, and nearly every dataset is trained on stolen data

[kingneon]

This is absolutely not necessary nor will it be useful. AI often has incorrect responses to user questions and searches. Not to mention how much of a waste of resources it is. It takes up so much processing power for so little in return, and wastes gallons upon gallons of water cooling those overworked components. If you have any care for your users and for the environment, please do not use or implement any AI features (even optional ones) into Firefox.

You guys seem like the only browser willing to listen to its users. Thank you for opening this subject to comment. Please listen to us.

[Miranova23]

AI is the worst & only makes things like this worse. Pleeease no! I really like Firefox but I have dropped other things I liked just as much once they tried to integrate AI. The quality always ends up tanked.

[taichara]

I do not want "AI" in Firefox.  Ever.

- LLM feed off of other people's works, without permission or recompense.

- LLM regurgitate back utter nonsense.

- Oh and they suck up energy and water requirements at a truly horrific speed that cannot be justified ever let alone in a climate crisis.

NO to "AI".

[Crowleyhamster]

Why is this even something you're considering?!?   No one wants this.

[woolycat]

I'm adding in my vote of no. I, along with many others, are anti AI. I'm tired of having AI shoved in my face, tired of seeing the damage it does to actual people. It's a digital plague. I have held Firefox in high regards for being for the people, but the inclusion of AI would make me rethink that stance and have me considering other options.

[tjl]

How do we remove this entirely from a build? Not just some about:config rabbit-hole, how can I download a source build to get a version where this is simply not present at all?

This should be a configuration item, not something that would require a fork.

[Ambs]

Please do not do this.  Generative AI has repeatedly proven to be mistake-ridden and makes things up wholesale because it's based on statistical linguistic probabilities rather than actual conceptual thinking, never mind the environmental damages required to run that kind of computing power.  I will be turning off all generative AI extensions/add-on/gingerbread that is pushed out to all users and will be considering other browsers if I can't get away from it

[Traccoon]

No, get rid of this. I came here for privacy and no ai sidebars/ai 'features', if this goes beyond testing I will uninstall this browser and do my damnest to erase myself from here. I will drop you faster than your processors can register, I did this with duckduck, I will do it with you.

[iamcaptainskye]

Part of what I love about Firefox is its resistance to compromising on user privacy, accessibility, customizability, and utility. Introducing AI/LLM features, even if they're opt-in, is still antithetical to every reason that I use Firefox and recommend it to all of my friends and family.

[Courtknee]

I don’t want AI in Firefox. Or anywhere really but Firefox is the focus here.

[rk1]

NO THANK YOU.  I abandoned g**gle chrome years ago because  knew they were putting in more and more predatory practices and functionalities in their program and I came to Firefox to AVOID all that junk. Even if you add it as an "option" now it's only a matter of time before it becomes built in. KEEP AI OUT OF MY INTERNET EXPERIENCE, PLEASE AND THANK YOU.

[AsterInDis]

Generative AI sucks. Uses too much electricity & water and spews out middle of the road crap rife with misinformation and errors. So no thanks.

[EinsteinFrizz]

Everything has been said before but I wanted to add my voice to the sea of disapprovals - Mozilla has the opportunity to show their absolute backbone against predatory internet practices (as has been its brand for a long time) by rejecting the erosion of personal and intellectual privacy and ownership of information through the use of AI. This goes against the core reason why people use Firefox in the first place. Do not add this feature.

(edited to add: I made a forum account just for this because I feel so strongly about it but I have been using Firefox for many years)

[Alpha]

Why would you even consider this. Every artist and writer and anyone affected by AI will dump this web browser.

[Katjr]

NO to AI.

[CambrianC]

this sounds horrendous, I really wish we could stop encouraging people to use AI as search engines when there are already so many examples of AI spreading misinformation because it saw one comment that was meant to be sarcastic. Not to mention the thievery and insane power usage that is inherent to AI.

[june-]

DO NOT AI PLEASE

[koiranliha]

Please no. Please for the love of god, this is part of exactly what I switched to Firefox to AVOID. DON'T DO THIS. NO ONE asked for this. I don't want an AI toolbar, I want the ability to CHOOSE my extensions and have the OPTION to use AI or don't. I don't want an AI reading my settings, I don't want an AI suggesting me things, I don't want an AI anywhere near my browser.

I stopped using Google Chrome because AI was taking over. I stopped using Google Docs because AI was taking over. I stopped using Duolingo because AI was taking over. Don't make me stop using Firefox too.

[mothgenes]

please for the love of god do not put ai in here i have never used it once and i would like to go the rest of my life without don't even show it to me. don't put it in front of me. if its in my eye sight i don't want it. if i wanted a terrible browser experience that i cannot trust on any level i would go to a different browser. do not put the "mix vinegar and bleach dont worry about it" chatbot in firefox please. please? Please

[whitenight12]

No thanks if I wanted to use AI then I'll go to a website and do that, but AI should not be part of the browser.

[liverofsulfur]

hey bud this is a bad call. i literally made an account to tell you this. this is a waste of everyone's time, energy, and resources. y'all have a great browser on your hands. don't tarnish it with the AI garbage that's going around. if all the cool kids (ex: Google) were burning their cars, would y'all burn yours too? i'd sure hope not

[Flrt]

No, thank you. I switched from Chrome to Firefox to avoid the encroaching AI (among other things, but I really thought Mozilla wouldn't turn to AI at all tbh), and I hope you reconsider using it at all.  I don't want the option to hide it, I want the option to remove it altogether if it is implemented.

[AStrangeKnight]

Adding AI to Firefox would be terrible. Why is this even being considered? Because everyone else in tech is doing it? God, that's stupid.

[BookishSiren]

Please don't.

Look, we get that AI is the "Big Thing" in tech right now but, with everything we're seeing Generative AI is doing nothing but actively harming the environment, information and fact checking, as well as artists and creators.

It might seem like if you want to keep up with the rest of the world you need to join the crowd but it's the ways that Firefox is different that brings people to it, and bringing AI into it is going to just alienate people who've come to trust Mozilla.

It will make people uncertain, because if you're going to way of Google on AI, how can we be certain you won't on other features that people have come to rely on? Where will the lines be drawn, and how will be be able to trust they're set in stone when you will have made it clear that conformity is more important to you.

So please, do not do this.

[melino3]

do not. AI is awful and a scourge and I specifically use Firefox because it doesn't force nonsense like this on me and scrape my data. please dear god do not allow this virus to continue spreading into all of the good and useful technology.

[stunfiskz]

Please do not add this.

[Dracophile]

NO AI. I don't want AI anything. AI screws over artists, writers, actors and more; plus it is awful for the environment. There is nothing I want or need to use it for and I don't want it anywhere near me. Bringing this into the browser really undercuts the trust I had in firefox tbh

[ebrdsht]

This is 100% a no for me, right now on my phone Nightly runs pretty poorly. This AI button I'm sure would just be an extra waste of resources

[wilbureworm238]

please dont put ai into firefox, this is the only browser i can trust please

[lily_rose]

NO!!!! NO NO NO NO NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I do not want the theft machine anywhere near my work, my activity, my photos, or anything else I do on the internet. I recognize that there is little I can do about this in general, but the least I ask is that Firefox not throw its credibility down the drain by inflicting a large language model on its users that routinely spits out dangerously inaccurate information (the mushroom books come to mind) based on stolen data!

[wilbureworm238]

please please pretty please DONT add ai i beg of you mozilla team please

[nesanon]

an absolutely TERRIBLE idea. implementing ai would be shooting yourselves in the foot! firefox is supposed to be the nice, simple, private option for internet users! ai is decidedly NOT part of that ideal. no thanks, man!

[wilbureworm238]

ai is awful as a search engine please dont

[le3ech]

I will stop using Nightly if Ai is implemented. I haven't noticed any yet but if I do I'll uninstall. It already ruined google and you still think this is a good idea???

[socksolotl]

I am so incredibly tired of companies foisting AI onto us and calling something so invasive, exploitative, and environmentally destructive, "innovative." I've long respected mozilla's commitment to privacy and security and general decency that seeing this sharp turn into embracing AI is disappointing, at best. Where's your integrity?

[Billing]

If you implement AI into Firefox I'll drop the browser so fast. Do not want. Ever, in any capacity.

[andwhyisit]

You have been pushing Firefox as the solution for privacy until now. AI will undermine those efforts. No-one will trust that you aren't using the browser to pull training data from your own users. You will fracture your existing userbase by implementing AI. Do not let sunk cost fallacy influence your decision-making. Drop AI now!

[Lampollo]

Made an account just to say I’ve never wanted a feature less! I do not want AI in my browser and I’d honestly rather jump back to chrome than use firefox if this was put in 🙂

[Marcy]

Hi! please do not add ai to a perfectly good browser. you will lose A LOT of your userbase if you go through with this. thank you for your time