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!

[Steevh]

Do not add “AI” to FF or any Mozilla product. LLMs are just bull**bleep** generators and it would turn Firefox to **bleep**. 

[sebsauvage]

No really, thank you.
Please don't.

That will be another thing to disable when installing Firefox.

[Osmosisch]

I hate that this is what your resources are being spent on, and I want nothing to do with LLM bull**bleep**.

[lbuesch2]

Why would you, a usually good internet service, do this? Who is asking? How do we make them stop?

[Lukedearden]

No thanks

[StarlitSkvader]

Absolutely not.

AI plagiarizes at best and endangers lives with its faulty generations at worst. No interest, no thanks, no AI.

[Deiroo]

I think you are confusing regular firefox users with venture capitalists. It's the latter who are driving AI in the hopes of getting large returns at some point. I as a regular firefox user couldn't care less about AI.

[domarisc]

No, absolutely not!

[SaleemZK]

Please do not,, AI is ruining the search engines and they have 0 added value. Please do not make Firefox worse just to be trendy. Please do not use AI the damage it is doing to the environment is huge and irreversible. You are better than this and you do not need AI.

[Normalbeing404]

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@asafko wrote:

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!

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please don't

[Username12]

lifetime firefox user of 20-odd years. I have yet to find a practical use for so-called 'AI', and most of its proponants remind me of the those awful crypto hype guys- the types who tell me to "just wait, it'll be useful soon!". I want this tech nowhere near my computer and will do everything in my power to keep it separate.  Firefox adding anything 'AI' makes me trust and respect Mozilla LESS. I'll be excited for this bubble to burst and we can all go back to working on technology that meaningfully makes our lives better.

[Anonymous]

If you really want to have this feature, please make it an extension, not an official browser feature. One of the reasons I went to Firefox is because it didn't have any AI features. I'm willing to go to another fork if Mozilla continues to force AI on users.

[Allison-miller]

Please do not. One of the reasons I love Firefox is lack of AI. We as a race are perfectly capable of utilizing search engines to find information and solutions. Firefox is a great alternative to the other search engines BECAUSE of simplicity. Adding an AI will guarantee I switch to a different search engine without one. 

[katie666]

Don't do this. Just don't. Focus on doing literally anything else.

[Anonymous]

I moved back over to firefox this year to get away from all this AI integration nonsense and the bull**bleep** with google and the anti ad blocking sentiments. I suppose it's nice that this is optional, but optional just feels like it leading into it not being an inevitable non option if you can have it or not.

[Packbat]

It is tremendously irresponsible to promote generative-AI chatbots this way, regardless of what attempts you have made to promote privacy.

First, AI is notoriously bad at summarizing text, being prone to fabricating information and missing essentials.

Second, because of the nature of training data scraped from the public internet, even LLMs which are modified not to be overtly racist will be covertly racist, supporting toxic stereotypes.

Third, large-language models are notorious for their environmental impact - forcing the production of huge amounts of servers running nonstop in an era where slowing anthropogenic climate change is vital.

Fourth, there are absolute horror stories about low-wage workers being traumatized generating training data to try and make AIs like ChatGPT less racist.

This entire concept is morally bankrupt and actively makes your product worse. Scrap it.

[AdrianNerium]

Absolutely not.  AI is so insidious and horrid, I've worked so hard to disable all options of AI off my machines and yet every os other than Linux is still bogged with a ton of bloatware including AI garbage.  Do not add this to Firefox, it's not wanted nor necessary.

[IF]

Please don’t jump on this unethical, poorly conceived and technically dubious bandwagon. Your staff, time, energy and money can be better used elsewhere. I use Firefox because of the values I thought were behind it. Make the browser’s core the best it can be and the ditch the shallow fripperies of features that no one has asked for, wants or will use. After the AI bubble has burst, see what of value can be found in the ruins and THEN take a look at implementation. 
Mozilla is supposed to be better than this tech-bro FOMO nonsense. 

[Lyude]

Please don't, focus your time on things people want instead of following market trends. It is is decisions like this that hurt people's trust in Mozilla

[smelldigan]

please do not do this

[mintykiwi]

no

[mooreannaa]

You were supposed to be different, Firefox. 

[MothraBroth]

Please, for the love of all that is good and holy, do not add AI. We don't want AI. Firefox, you're better than this, PLEASE.

[MamaKitsune]

Echoing what I'm already seeing here: no AI, not now, not ever. It's a climate-destroying, energy-devouring, ineffective plagiarism machine, nothing more. I don't want this feature at all. I don't want it feeding off what I input in a browser or search. I don't want it regurgitating a slurry of incorrect and stolen material when I'm looking for an answer written by a person.

Just stop.

[csarven]

Is introducing an AI feature into Firefox, which may impact user privacy and environmental sustainability, really in line with Mozilla's commitment to openness, privacy, and a healthier internet?

[c0debabe]

I am against AI services being built in. If people want that they should make plug-ins.

[Dd25turtle]

Please don't add AI to Firefox! AI has absolutely ruined many other browsers for me and I would really like to continue comfortably using Firefox! AI messes up search results, provides inaccurate information and is a waste of resources and energy that can be directed to other things! Please listen to your users!! 

[Aincretop]

i guess its time to find another browser

[dpro]

To me implementing this seems to be a waste of time. Personally I wouldn't use it.

[DellOnTheBell]

I will not be using Firefox if it integrates AI bull**bleep**. I use this browser to get away from this garbage, and it's being shoved in my face again. I thought Firefox was better than this, but I guess not.

[rcoh22]

no!!! no!!! i love firefox because of the privacy and because i can escape AI being at every corner. please don’t ruin the sanctity and utility of firefox by adding this garbage. your users deserve better 

[Gav]

No, this is terrible. This is just chasing the flashy buzzword flavor of the year. Make a browser extension, but please don't ship it with the browser itself. 

Note how much negative feedback this has. And I know the team behind decisions likes to ignore community feedback, but market share is low, and they should maybe put two and two together.

[agt1999]

No thanks. Please make it opt-in if you have to jump on this destructive band wagon. No good can come from this. Search has become far less useful and with this you will be sending people further afield in the hopes that they'll buy something. Firefox used to be a trusted bastion to escape chrome but with ai ff becomes just another commercial. 

[Anonym1]

I don't want AI in my browser for environmental, data security and ethical reasons. I use Firefox in part to escape the integrated AI on other browsers. 

[metamatik]

Absolutely not.

[Lume-11]

Please keep AI away from firefox, we do not want that at all. I love firefox, but i'll switch if you guys start forcing AI on us like other browsers and apps.

[kiddcutty]

I switch to Firefox because of all of the privacy features. Adding AI to the platform completely undermines the privacy of all users. Also I am unsure on which LLM you are using but most of them are definitely not ready for production and are a danger to people who trust them. NO TO AI!!!!!!!!!!!

[mahryekuh]

Please no. I do not want AI products in my browser (or any other tech, for that matter) unless I specifically add it. AI has ethical and environmental downsides that are too dangerous to ignore. AI content is also of poor quality and overtakes human content, to a point where the web loses its credibility. Please focus on your core product: a high-quality internet browser. We don't want to lose Firefox because that gives Chromium/Google a monopoly, and that will stagnate innovation of the web (or turn it into even more AI).

[innostus]

We do not need such functions in a browser. If anyone wants such a feature, an extension or plugin should be used. Firefox should focus on building an efficient browser. Not an energy guzzling AI function.

[cyberialyr1]

god please no