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!

[Vexerie]

You are the safe web browser in a sea of web browsers that force ai onto us when it just hurts our oceans, wastes energy, and enables the wealthy to use emotionless replicas of the skilled underclass for their own gain. If you want to lose a significant portion of your userbase, go ahead. If you use AI you are getting rid of one of the things people love about this site.

In conclusion: absolutely not. don't touch it. stay away. me and many others will find an alternative if you do ❤️

[kqrmen1]

noooooooooooo

[YougettheGist]

Please do not do this!!! Please please please do not do this!!!!!!! It is unnecessary, I have never needed AI features on browsers or programs in my life! There is no need and in fact can be a terrible idea in the long run! Do not do this!!!!!

[boddyboddyboo]

Do not do this.

I will switch browsers if AI services are added to Firefox.

[dog1]

Please reconsider your mistake. Thanks.

[TheLazySunshine]

Keep AI out of Firefox. I use this browser to avoid AI, it steals from people and is horrible for the environment

[WingsofFire]

Please please PLEASE DON'T DO THIS. Me and people I know have stuck with firefox for so long because it didn't shove in things like AI. Why would you do this? Just don't do this please.

[dog1]

people called them out on mastodon, and they stopped posting there for awhile LMFAO.

[JoelV]

Please, no! What a waste of resources, both developing this feature and using it.

[Lydiaa]

You're starting to get huge traction and you're doing this?? Thought you were smarter than this.  shame

[lackey]

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[Nobody_of_note]

Wow, I got the notification for that so I know what was removed.  That's a bad look.

Will be cancelling my subscription and moving away from anything Mozilla is involved in.

[nanarko]

what was removed? I didn't get the notif so I don't know

[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.

[WriteThisWay]

Please don't. The lack of an environment-burning, content-stealing AI is half the reason I use Mozilla in the first place. I would honestly consider going back to Chrome (or even Edge) if you were to add any sort of AI features.

[TheEaterOfBeans]

PLEASE DO THIS I BEG YOU DON'T LET TUMBLR WIN

[TheEaterOfBeans]

**bleep** I FORGOT THIS WAS A REPLY

[TheEaterOfBeans]

oh it doesn't let me swear. ok. I know this now

[jahtnamas]

what are you talking about here re: "letting tumblr win" what do the decisions of a unrelated website have to do with firefox adding AI

edit: nvm, turns out you're a immature weirdo, hope you grow up soon and realize it's better to love as much as you can

[TheEaterOfBeans]

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

[TheEaterOfBeans]

please I beg you. I found this from a Tumblr post and I NEED Tumblr to LOSE. I will start actually using your browser instead of having it on my taskbar and telling myself I'm going to switch and then never doing it if you just implement the useless AI button