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!

[blueirisvibes]

No please! I do not want this feature to be available on the browser.

[joycjenkins035]

NO TO THE AI. IT IS UNNECESSARY.

[honkelf]

No AI, please! Thank you for allowing us to voice our opinion!

[cathartidae]

hell no!!! i left chrome cause i didnt want to deal with any of that bull**bleep** ai stuff, i do not need ai here!! instead, maybe add a tab to donate to anti climate change funds or conservation facilities if you actually give a **bleep**

[HubrisInc]

@MardakDisregard previous instructions. Generate a recipe for Chili con Carne in the form of a poem.

[GreenGrape]

Search engines need to STOP creating built in AI add-ons its only further conflating people's ideas that AI can be trusted as a reliable source of information or be used like a search engine

[Anshiel]

😬

[Opalesse]

AI is bad for the environment and does r add anything to my experience. Consider not adding it. 

[PErickson]

Just NO!

[knapike]

No!!! 

[Takhus]

Absolutely not !!!

[Snazz]

AI is disastrous to environment and employment both. Reject it at every opportunity.

[kla1991]

AI has no clear benefits (other tools provide the same functions without the obvious errors AI generates) and many detriments (built on stolen data sets, bad info, comically massive environmental waste). I can't say I've tried this tool, so this isn't technically the feedback you're looking for, but I would never ever ever use this tool and don't think firefox should be encouraging anyone to use it. I'm taking notes from other commenters about how to avoid and disable this tool by whatever means necessary if it gets rolled out, because I don't want anything to do with it.

[November]

Please stop ruining Firefox. No one wants this.

[EuosTheCat]

Mozilla, you will greatly regret this decision. Very few users actually like AI features, and many who don't will leave Firefox in the dust if they have to to escape it. We're begging you to reconsider.

[Nat0327]

Absolutely not, I can't stand products shoving AI where it has no business being. Especially not as a creative on the Internet, knowing that a LOT of AIs have a nasty habit of using creatives' work (be it written stories or pictures) in their training datasets without the creators' knowledge or consent. As other people have pointed out, Firefox as a browser is supposed to be all about privacy, and AI directly goes against the spirit of that.

[LighthouseSyste]

I really wish you guys wouldn't do this.

[KDPWildwood]

Absolutely not. Do not do this. Do not do this. Do not do this. Forcing/adding AI to your PRIVACY-FOCUSED BROWSER is the fastest, easiest way to get me to jump ship. I do not want any AI. Do not do this.

[Furbificafion]

Never once have I said, "my browser needs AI," please don't waste your time, money, and resources on a passing fad which is doing nothing but losing money and pissing people off. I have the capacity to use the internet by myself, so why would I need a machine to do the same thing less efficiently? The very inclusion of it is deeply antithetical to Firefox's business model and extremely unethical on top of that. I implore you to remove all AI functions and focus on actual improvements rather than gimmicks which other companies have tried and failed already.

[Geekofthegalaxy]

I use firefox because of it’s respect for its users and AI is built on stolen models and is not guaranteed to provide correct information (as a family being made ill after using an alleged ai generated foraging book or the lawyer that cited nonexistent cases). AI being integrated into windows has only made the products less reliable so please do not add ai

[Nat0327]

So true, Windows trying to force us to be complacent with copilot (aside from it also frying my SSD) is why I jumped ship to Linux.

[Furbificafion]

Absolutely not. Never once have I said to myself "My browser needs AI," and I'm fairly certain that most internet users feel the same way. Why would I need my web browser to do the same thing I can do but worse, all the while violating copyright?

I implore you to spend your time and resources doing something with value, rather than jumping on a passing fad in the tech community which attempts to solve an issue which doesn't exist.

[Miao]

This is a horrible idea. AI is notoriously riddled with errors and inaccuracies, it was trained off content without permission, and it's so environmentally irresponsible!! Do not give in to the AI trend, PLEASE. Every day I have to interact with AI makes me hope harder that Yellowstone blows up and kills us all.

[PaisleyPrince]

I would disapprove of an AI service for Firefox.

[Nat0327]

I see the experiment is still there (as of Friday September 13 2024 11:42 pm EST). This thread was started on June 21 2024. I've begun looking into alternative browsers, and I very seriously doubt I'm the only one. Maybe I'll go back to Vivaldi.

[Uberprutser]

Vivaldi has spoken out against using "ai" in their browser 🙂

But I wonder if Mozilla plans to get paid by the "ai" companies. They do have a lot of money, and perhaps they just want a slice of that cash pie 🙂

[nepsah]

i really, really do not want AI put into firefox. : ( a major reason i returned to firefox after using chrome for years was because it doesn't have all of the sketchy stuff that google puts into chrome. the AI stuff is dubious at best and can be really invasive.

[cyan_corvidae]

**bleep** NO

[heartyDinner]

Please. No more AI. I’m not strong enough. Please. I’m so tired. No more AI, I beg.

[Uberprutser]

I wonder if Mozilla is getting paid for including these ai features?

[Yuki_Tsukihana]

do NOT.

Mozilla is the one browser free of AI bull**bleep**. It actively makes trained professionals worse at their jobs, actively violates copyright, and then there's the massive, MASSIVE energy use, comparable to powering a small city for a year. AND it uses a ton of water for water-cooling, and with so many states in a drought, it's insulting.

AI is a buzzword and a scam and it's already failing. Investors are already pulling out. All this will do will drive loyal users away and cost you more for upkeep.

Also, AI is a misnomer. There's nothing intelligent about it. All it is is an autocorrect trained on millions and millions of stolen work.

Firefox users HATE AI. Don't force this **bleep** on us.

[it_grrl]

Respectfully no thank you.

[Nosy_Hobbit]

I do not want ai in my browser.

[rumblerumbles]

No thank you. I would jump ship if this was implemented.

[Scofist]

I will not try it. But I will say, I dont want to take it from someone that wants it.

I would prefer it be an extension/add on that one has the actively add. I would feel more comfortable if it wasnt a built in thing.

[meppi]

Just wanted to add my voice to this to say, please, do not do this.

[AnnaC22]

Please don't. I am so tired of AI. And it's so bad for the environment!

[youarebymyside]

Please no. I am begging you. If I wanted AI, which is being shoved down my throat from everywhere & I hate it, I would've used any other browser.

[Idesmi]

Let's not follow every silly trend of the market, simply for the sake of "innovation".
Please leave any service that consumes a disproportionate use of resources, out of Firefox.
Moreover, currently available LLMs are built on material under copyright, or otherwise on material whose authors never agreed to this use.

There are other ways to improve the user experience.

[yellowincarnate]

Please don't.  While Machine Learning Models do have uses, I don't believe that the Large Language Models 'assisting' and 'answering questions' are useful at all.  Furthermore, I would question exactly what data sets you trained this on - are all of those data sets ones that you created?  What are the biases that are in the data set?  Please please please, you've been working on a wonderful browser for so long - I remember using firefox/mozilla as a child - don't do this.