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!

[zendica]

NO

[felixthecat]

NO, absolutely not, would never use it, hate the idea of you wasting tons of money and energy and contributing to global energy, water, and climate crises just to fill the internet with more garbage answers to questions that human beings have already answered on their websites that they made with their fully functioning human brains. NO THANK YOU.

[manicpineapple]

literally NOBODY wants this. anyone who wants ai garbage in their browser is already using chrome or whatever

[majesticmini471]

Who wants more news about what Artificial Intelligence is doing? For the whole last week, it has been making nearly all SQL servers and users' applications crash. Users are being severely breached by it. This is why my team, who favors Firefox 3.6.9 and UNIX, is against all Oracle Java6<, MS.Net3<, and Python3<. We are not corporations' toys! Stop them from infringing us. Please spread the word, immediately. We are in jeopardy. May the Lord help every single one of us.

[sonohtigris]

NO BAD CEO BAD EXECUTIVE AI IS BAD WE DONT LIKE IT ITS DUMB AND **bleep**S UP

[BookReaderMan]

modern "AI" is designed to vomit out the most likely series of words to continue whatever prompt it is given based on statistics alone as a result it gives answers that are often deceiving at first glance but in truth worthless at best actively harmful at worst, it does this while consuming (read wasting) ridiculous amounts of power, as a result it has no place existing in a web browser (or search engine, but that's unrelated) by default, as a result I am strongly against any "AI" functionality being added in  any official capacity

[Ferran-Eros]

A huge no from me, please don't do it.

[rahkirby]

No thank you. Please recognize that people use Firefox explicitly so they don't have to worry about having garbage like this forced on them in chromium browsers.

[Chartrux]

Come on Mozilla

If we are using Firefox it is for better privacy. Not for stupid invasive tools that participate in making our world a worse place

[CrystalLord]

I'm sorry, I _really_ don't want an LLM in Firefox. One of the reasons I use Firefox is because I can trust it can preserve my data. Regardless of whether or not the LLM is locally run, I would be paranoid that it would be training on my inputs. I also don't want to waste datacentre processing power on running some remote AI, and I certainly don't want to spend GPU processing power on running a local AI.

Please don't add this feature to the core browser. Don't alter existing Firefox installs. This is a bad idea.

[squabbled]

Please don't. I use Linux and Mozilla products to avoid AI stuff, not have it in my web browser.

[jenniferk]

Please do not do this. Please God let us have at least one program in our lives that doesn't scrape every single thing we do to feed it into the slop machine of generative AI.

[c67f]

Also agree that please don't

[NightingaleJune]

Hi there. Please don't.

[qz]

Please dont do this. This would be a terrible feature. Please pull away from this AI track.

[boopadoop]

Nope

[Obligada]

Add my voice to the chorus of NOOOO

Why, though? What is even the point on having ai in our browsers? What purpose could it possibly serve? The more I read about it, the more I become convinced that genAI —at least as it exists today—, it utterly useless, pointless, harmful to the environment, when it’s not outright destroying the livelihoods of thousands of people across the world, often all of those things at the same time. I’ve yet to read a convincing explanation of what is it good for and why do we need it in our daily lives. GenAI seems to exist mostly to make absurdly rich tech people even richer while adding nothing of value to the world. I want nothing to do with it.

[PixelLight0]

I'm not interested in this feature, I feel like development time could be better spent elsewhere

[theotherowl]

Not a good idea, will find another non ai browser if you implement ai

[Zoreta]

AI is a destructive force for users, as well as the environment of technological development. It wastes electricity, creating needless greenhouse gas emissions, for the sake of chewing up, digesting, and then defecating the congealed remains of what was once human creation.

Keep it out of Firefox.

[TheEaterOfBeans]

Please do this. I won't use it, I just want the anti-AI people to get mad.

[Cid]

Nein. No. Ei. Ie. Niet. Do some more No forms come to my mind atm? Not really aside off: 

PERKELE SATAANA!

Please don't add any "help" in using AI... It already robs so much of people without asking and doesn't make me want to use Firefox ANYMORE if you add it as well :(( It is a very bad idea. 

IF you still wanna add that: Please do pay all of the people who got ripped of their work into these AI programs without their consent :DDDD  Which honestly.. would be a fricking expensive thing. You would have to pay kinda every person that post stuff on the internet.

so please. No 🙂 thank you.

[lilacsigil]

Why on earth would you do this? I have got myself a mozilla chat ID just to say what a shockingly bad and disappointing decision this is. What would AI possibly add to the Firefox experience? I'm with Firefox because most of the internet has been en**bleep**tified by Google and Microsoft and now AI, please don't add to it. And if you absolutely must for some reason, please make it opt-in.

[-MightyMittens-]

no

Please no

the reason I use firefox is to escape the AI and (as much as I can of) tracking bull

[WhyTheFU0K]

I use Firefox as my primary browser, on personal and work laptops as well as on mobile. 

The use of neural networks (it’s not technically AI) as search or answer services is morally deplorable and an environmental blight. Mozilla incorporating this mass misinformation feature is clearly due to cowing to peer pressure and capitalist obsession rather than implementation of a valuable or useful feature.

In other words: Neural Networks suck and are killing the world, and they don’t even do a good job. Stop ruining the only good browser left!!!

And don’t tell me it’s an optional feature. Living on the planet you’re killing isn’t optional. 

[Yriu]

I do not like Generative AI as it is massively understood now and implemented, because its foundation is stolen and unfiltered data for the purpose of optimizing the "confident natural language response".

I accept machine learning or AI for other things, as have existed way before the current wave. ML trained over specific data (obtained legally and morally) for technical purposes is useful. A confident but usually wrong natural language model is the worst of all worlds.

Do us all a favor and reconsider this position.

Will 100% check forks from the community if this goes on.

[Indigo_Beetle]

No nonono never never NEVER would I want this. I use firefox exactly because it's the only decent browser, but this would make it just as awful as the rest of them. I don't care about any reassurances that "it doesn't affect the security" or "it's optional", because having it introduced in the first place is already a huge red flag - if we ignore this now like you're basically asking us to, it's only going to lead to more changes where this "service" becomes gradually more obnoxious and exploiting towards the user.

At that point I might as well use any other browser because what benefit is there left in using firefox specifically? You should not forget about prioritizing user experience over insidious tech trends.

[Pyrelight]

How many people do you think are using Firefox specifically because it is supposed to not be subjected to the **bleep** Google and everyone else has become, and that ai might be part of that? If ai is added to the built in spellchecker I'm going to be slightly pissed.

I don't like the idea of adding ai in at all to Firefox, but if you must, please please please make a toggle that actually works that preserves privacy and functionality for the user. I'm here to avoid ai bull as much as possible.

[m0ss_]

Seriously if you do this I'm leaving and never looking back. AI tech in its current iteration is a plague to the tech community and I'm sick of it ruining everything I love.

[grim]

Please don't add AI features whatsoever. As others have said, it's detrimental to our real-world environment and doesn't add features we can't do already (and the ones it claims to be able to do it's extremely bad at and is not a comparable replacement for human work.)

Firefox is the ONE browser I actually like using and trust to respect my privacy and provide a good experience. The addition of AI features would completely shatter my trust in Mozilla.

[Iorveth]

Firefox needs to modernize without loosing its core values. I suggest implementing an integration with opensource local AI models like the phi3, which is real powerful and optimized to run locally. As an alternative, integration with the duckduckgo anonymised chat implementation, to run LLMs remotely but with less of a privacy hit.

[abardenhagen]

I will not even bother to try out the feature because I do not want any sort of Ai service to be installed on Firefox. Literally no one who uses Firefox wants Ai services on Firefox. It's a waste of energy, it's inaccurate, and is pointless in the extreme.

[endgamesyndrome]

This is the polar opposite of what your users want. Many of us use Firefox because you're one of the only main browsers that hasn't gone to hell with the introduction of AI. I want to be able to FIND THE THINGS I SEARCH FOR, and in every single other browser that's integrated AI, search result quality plummets. That doesn't even touch on security and environmental concerns. If AI is added to Firefox, I will be deleting it from all my devices and finding something else.

[przxqgl]

NO! 🤬

[Harley]

No thank you

[Italypasta]

Incredibly disappointed that this addition has even been considered, let alone available.

[veroniche]

please firefox you my only ho dont do this 😭

[Kingm4ry]

NO ONE i mean LITERALLY NO ONE wants this feature, up to this point Firefox was the only usable browser without AI garbage, we don't need another Chrome with useless data-mining slop.

[barzi]

I'm glad you are being thoughtful about privacy and user experience (i.e. opt-in instead of opt-out), but I genuinely do not understand the purpose of such thing in a browser.
I've read the referenced blog post and I still don't understand, if it's not aimed to be a core part (which you can see a lot of people are against), why should it be part of Firefox. Why cannot it be an add-on (at best) for interested people?

I don't know if you've published somewhere else what is you destination for doing this.(Link me or tell me if you have one). Because at this point it seems like AI for AI sake.

[A246X48]

Please do not add AI to Firefox.

AI will not attract new users, nor make Firefox a more enjoyable experience. All it will accomplish is the isolation of existing users, either for privacy reasons, or performance reasons, and a massive sink of money and resources that will ultimately result in zero net benefit.