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!

[timonr]

Please add X's grok as an ai chatbot option. thy so much.

[ThatDude3000]

GTFO with this spyware GPT

[MrSom3body]

Now that Orbit has been released, why not integrate that into this feature? It's the only imho that even makes to integrate that tightly if you're really trying to be privacy respecting

[M00nie]

Please don't add any kind of AI to your browser, i love firefox but this is making me way less interested in it and might just switch to some other browsers if AI keeps getting shoved into it. NO AI, PLEASE.

[ned7000]

AI chatbots are ethically and morally wrong. This should not be an "opt-out" feature. If anything, it should be an "opt-in" feature or even a plugin so that it can be easily uninstalled.

[ned7000]

I will be trying out LibreWolf and Mercury, both downstream builds of Firefox with more focus on privacy and importantly NO AI. They even work with Mozilla sign-in, so everything ports directly from Firefox and works with Firefox mobile, though I'll be trying Mercury Mobile as well. I'm not ready to give up Mozilla, but since this seems to be the direction Firefox is going, I'll be looking at other browsers.

[Kotep]

It is not a helpful addition to Firefox and I didn't have to turn it on to see it. I suppose AI and lying go hand in hand.

[Kotep]

To provide a little more helpful feedback about my experience, the key combination that's used to open the sidebar will automatically enable the AI sidebar. This is a problem, as I've already bound that key combination to a function in one of my addons.

Negative behavior: I uncheck the option, hit the ctrl-alt-X combo, and the sidebar opens and the option re-checks itself.

Expected behavior: If I uncheck the option, I don't want to use it, and the key combination remains available.

[coldknees]

No, it is not a "helpful addition to Firefox", it's garbage. GenAI is theft, it has a huge negative affect on the environment (for no benefit), it's flooding the internet with crap and contributing in a big way to the ensh*tification of the internet in general.
Get rid of it, & if you ever make it a default part of the browser/ take away the option to turn it off I will not be using Firefox any longer.

[lewismac]

You probably would have protested mechanised agriculture, and continued to ride horseback to protest the automobile. How did you even write this comment? Are you not disgusted by the impact your modern, technological life has on the environment?

[coldknees]

Modern agriculture & cars have benefitted humanity such that that (imo) outweighs the harm they cause the environment (at least to a degree). GenAI is an active harm to humanity & is not some amazing advancement that will benefit us in a comparable way to agriculture & cars.

I will not be replying to this thread again. You're completely incorrect, presumptuous & outright rude. 
If you want people to have discussions with you online you should consider learning to speak to others with some decency.