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!

[MrMr1019]

AI is largely unethical, is an environmental disaster, and should not be implemented. Period.

[14billionyears]

Hard pass.

[jackstrade]

Please don't. I've been faithful to Firefox for a long time because I appreciate the simplicity, security, and sincerity of the browser. I switched over from Chrome because I was tired of their garbage years ago. If this gets implemented I will not hesitate to switch browsers.

[kuku2000]

No, I literally added an extension to keep googles AI garbage away from me. PLEASE DO NOT INTEGRATE AI, I'm begging you not to

[Tunanoot]

Absolutely not. I will not accept the scourge of AI on every tech platform. Even DuckDuckGo was not spared of a mediocre chatbot. AI brings nothing but harm, and is a consistent source of misinformation that wastes energy and water. The public is disinterested and untrustworthy of generative AI, and if your company wants to keep its reputation, you will NOT integrate it.

I'm sorry, but AI is just a buzzword for shareholders, and will not be superior to simply researching things yourself, you can't advance by just shoving it in everything.

[Caiylist]

Hello! Please don’t do this. A large reason I’m using Firefox is because it does not have large in-built AI functions. They are horrible.

[lioreos]

PLEASE do not integrate AI. It’s ruined every search bar that has had AI integrated, and I use Firefox because it retains a lot more of my privacy and feeling safe online. AI will do the opposite.

[locketshoru]

No. Bad. I would rather be shot. We do not need it.

[patchworker]

if firefox users want to be lied to i'll do it without wasting a bottle's worth of water per query.

[NeonC]

I wouldn't mind being lied to. Why does the sun get replaced by the moon at night?

[Bi1z38]

DONT 👎🏽

[BasilsBestPaint]

Part of the reason I'm very big on Firefox is the large focus on privacy and security.

Adding an AI would very much go against the ideology- even if it's optional for now. I don't believe that there is a large market for AI extensions within the current user base.

[TullaBlue]

Against. tl;dr:

• I'm unsatisfied LLMs, even those chosen by Mozilla have been trained on ethically sourced data, given with informed consent.
• Hallucinated data and facts further the spread of misinformation and the motivation, time and energy required to fact-check every claim is unreasonably high.
• As a developer, learning how others have grown to rely on these tools for their projects chills me. To have Generative AI solve one's problems - to my understanding  - gives one no way to grow their programming skills or knowledge.
  The same can be said for any form of creative work, from fiction to an essay to an e-mail; if one doesn't understand -why- what they've made works, how are they to learn and grow? In other words: "If you couldn't be bothered writing this yourself, why should I be bothered to read it?"

Ultimately I feel there's no substitute for hard work and by leaning on the "quick and easy" way offered by Generative AI, we risk stagnating not just creatively, but as a wider Internet.

If Mozilla -must- offer a product with Generative AI, I would expect it to be something opt-in, such as an add-on or it's own separate program as say, Firefox Focus is to Firefox for mobile. If this is something that makes it into Firefox itself and my concerns remain, I cannot see myself continuing to support Mozilla.

[DasUnicorm]

Absolutely Not

[meels]

please don't. we don't need ai in our lives and i would argue that it actively makes us less intelligent, less curious, less reliable, less diligent, and less able to understand the truth.

[Speratus]

If I am forced to use AI I am abandoning this browser immediately.

[whywouldIdothis]

NO AI. We don't want it! It's unethical, ineffective, and bad for the environment! Don't bother adding it, we're all just going to turn it off asap.

[sswermund]

literally begging when i say please no. i'm so tired of the plagiarism machines, and EACH USE is like dumping 16oz of water right on the ground. who is asking for these things. why are they inescapable. i'm so tired. please don't do this.

[3potatoes]

NO

[gibbsith]

DO NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i use firefox both on my laptop and my phone. please do not do this.

[Minerorwoozer]

Please do not do this, your lack of an "AI" was one of the main reasons I switched to you from Opera GX. Please do not make me regret that decision

[Bananapeels]

Please do not do this. Statistically generated text cannot and must not replace our human critical thinking. It is inherently unreliable and undesirable. It is a solution in search of a problem, which will only create more problems in the long run, both fiscal and existential.

[VileCreature]

Unnecessary, harmful, just straight up not what i switched to firefox fori

If see it implemented (even as a turn on option) its migration time again 

[bengerman]

Thanks so much for helping us improve Firefox!

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Every response I've seen from Mozilla employees here seems to make it clear that you're going to disregard any feedback you get that doesn't sound like an endorsement of this feature, so including this preemptive thanks rings pretty hollow to me.

Please, do not do this. If I wanted an LLM, there are so many ways I can get one right now thanks to every single company drinking this Kool Aid. I don't need it to be baked into my browser. It has nothing to do with my browser. My browser is an agent for fetching web pages.

I use Firefox because it seems more privacy-focused, standards-focused, and user-focused than the alternatives. Adding a lying machine sorry, "AI" to Firefox makes it clear that Mozilla is not committed to any of these things.

Please, be the one company that can look back in 10 years and say "man, glad we didn't jump on that bubble"

[Regalli]

I have no desire for this feature whatsoever and it would make me consider using other browsers despite being a Firefox user for well over a decade. No, just no.

[maritime_memory]

No thank you!! Im personally happy that firefox has no AI(it seems like) and id like for it to stay that way!! 🙏🏾

[goatexx]

Hi! Please don't do this!

[ralphward458]

Please don't, the lack of AI is one of the main reasons I made the jump to firefox.

[Zauberbah]

As an information and knowledge management professional I recommend people use Firefox as their browser over other offerings and suggest it is worth contributing financially to the maintenance and development of Firefox. As evidenced by initiatives such as this, Mozilla seems intent on making it so that I (and others like me) will no longer do so.

[anqi]

please don’t.

no one’s asking for it, we all want it gone already.

[NeonC]

If we're copying other tech companies, copy the Opera tab stacking, not this AI **bleep**.

[Akino]

Knock it the **bleep** off. Have you not seen the catastrophic feedback to everything else adding AI slop to their programs?

[velociraptors]

I switched to Firefox recently to avoid the AI creeping into Chrome. If it makes its way here too, I'll leave just as quickly agaub,

[caelbot]

is there a reason companies see other companies losing customers/users because of certain features and then go "we should do that too!" Are you all masochists? Do you crave bankruptcy? What is going on here.

No. No AI. thanks.

[SergeantBane]

Please do not add AI. It will only make things worse.

[riya_w]

Im fine with General use of of ai, but i think Generative ai of any sort should be likely left out of a brower due to its inability to understand truth.

[SkeleDraki]

I don't see what use it could provide that the searchbar in settings or an extension cannot. It's reductive and overall not worth integrating or considering turning on.

[GunpowderGemini]

Hi, please do not add AI functions to firefox. In addition to being rife with misinformation and plagiarism, AI is also generally very bad for the environment. Please reconsider this addition and drop AI entirely. Thank you.

[Lithish]

When I learned Mozilla embedded AI into Firefox, I was FURIOUS. I'm STILL furious. I've been a Firefox user since 2011, but if Mozilla doesn't remove the LLM slop from Firefox, I WILL find an alternative, and so will everyone I know. The steep environmental and ethical costs associated with so-called "AI" are in no way shape or form justified by the programs' underwhelming utility, and I'm disheartened to see Firefox jumping on this overhyped, underbaked, morally repugnant bandwagon.

In short: GET RID OF IT.

[rolingmetal]

You could consider switching to Vivaldi. They have taken a stance against using "ai" in the browser.

It's Chromium based, and the Chromium browser dominance can be seen as an issue.