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!

[oakiia]

Pls no 😭

[BiancaCevenini]

Please do NOT add AI to firefox

[vasquini]

PLEASE DON'T INCORPORATE AI INTO FIREFOX. It clogs the search function with useless, often incorrect "answers" and unnecessary use of AI is an unneeded strain in the environment.

[EShaker]

I don't want any AI features in my browser whatsoever. Not even as an option; too many features that degrade my current user experience in applications started as "optional".

[laluje]

No thank you, generative AI is such a waste of resources, the water needed to cool it and electricity needed to power it are just not worth it. The current US power grid probably isn’t up to that kind of load. Plus, text generation isn’t much better than predictive text. There are no sources, no thought behind it, and it can’t correctly tell me how many x’s are in “Kenya” or “connective.” At this moment generative AI is just not worth the bother, despite every tech company trying to thrust it in consumer’s faces. If someone really wants links to AI services on their web browser leave it as an extension or bookmark they can add themselves.

[BalooUriza]

Where's the option to disable and remove completely any "AI"  component?  That needs to be the biggest, most prominent feature of any AI component.

[imathers]

Feedback: Please don't do this.

[IvyStryker]

I dont want "AI" in my browser. I dont want "AI" in the world. Just make a good normal browser that we can use without some resource eating nonsense trying to guess at what I'm doing. This is not a feature that should exist. 

[Marzi]

No, please don't. Internet right now feels like a trash heap on fire with how much AI makes it worse. Before AI it was just a regular trash heap.

Speaking slightly more seriously, there is more than enough tools that can summarize Wikipedia articles, adding yet another AI chat is not helpful or useful. It's just following a hype for hype's sake.

[Skulldog]

No one wants this, stop trying to slide this energy sucking waste of computer cycles OUT.

[Torbjorn]

Looks horrible. What's powering it? Something transparent about its 100% kosher training data with no intellectual property theft in it?

[wyvernsflight]

Please do not add any AI features.

[suissujin]

Please dont

If someone wants those features, add ons will be able to cover that. To make it a core feature would be devestationg for the future trust we can put into firefox and its safety claims.

If it has to be implemented no matter what, at least make it opt in.

[nineadrianna]

I do not find 99% of AI features to be useful, and this is no exception. AI has simply become a buzzword that most companies feel the need to integrate immediately for fear of irrelevance. I was hoping Mozilla would know better than to bend to the trend, and I hope it wises up to the fact that people prefer Firefox BECAUSE it's different from other browsers, not in spite of that fact.

[idkman5425243]

Are you gonna explain what "ai" you are going to be even testing because that's just a buzzword. is it an llm thats gonna hallucinate and tell people poisonous mushrooms are edible? is it a predictive algorithm?

[onyxior]

No ai, p l e a s e

[EShaker]

I think it's telling, by the way, how there has been a fairly overwhelming "No" in reply to this over three months, and those answers - which you asked for! - are being ignored. While Mozilla employees are in the replies implying ableism, ignorance, or asking "well gosh have you tried it?" Like not wanting LLM trash integrated into the browser is just some knee jerk reaction, not a reasoned, thought through decision arrived at by intelligent adults. We understand what we are saying to you, and what we are saying no to.

What was the purpose of asking for feedback on the first place?

[AlexisSophia]

No to AI in Firefox! I've been a loyal user since Firefox was first implemented, and this change will make me switch to an alternative—even one I otherwise like much less! Please don't do this 😞

[pringus]

While the option is nice for the people who wanted it, I think it would be better to have it as an optional feature that has to be installed, like Facebook Container, Firefox Colour, Relay, etc., not installed by default.

[isopodshuffle]

No one wants this. 

[SLW]

Please don't do this.  I'll absolutely revoke my monthly donation to Mozilla if I'm gonna be dealing with trying to get around that AI crap.

[RusMcLaughlin]

Hey there! Loyal Firefox user for decades now.

It's good that this is an optional thing. Because if and when you add AI services to your sidebar as a permanent feature, I will delete Firefox off all my platforms and migrate to a different browser. 

I do not need another worthless AI spraying disinformation across my screen, which it has likely stolen from other people (and possibly me as well) and repackaged as Accurate with zero ability to recognize that people on the Internet talk a lot of **bleep**. And the fact that Mozilla has bought into these counterproductive, possibly illegal practices (along with their immense environmental deficits) honestly has me already researching other browsers with better priorities.

AI does have important use cases -- security comes to mind -- but this? No. Absolutely not.

[simonjadis]

Absolutely not. I have been strongly recommending Firefox for people who need a better browser. This garbage does not belong on this or any browser. I'm excited for  "AI" to go the way of NFTs, and every time that another product tries to push this on users, it prolongs this farce. Enough.

[ChrisWare]

Please keep this AI garbage out of our browser. Not only is it garbage, but it's terribly environmentally unfriendly. I don't want it and definitely don't need it.

[211rB]

As respectfully as possible, I'm begging everyone who has a hand in this to absolutely under no circumstances implement any of this "AI" stuff here.

It goes against just about everything that I love about firefox; in functionality, in the UI, and just...on principle. 

I wouldn't be pleased about it, but I would find a new browser to use. I hope my hand will not be forced, I love firefox! But my opposition to "AI" outweighs that enjoyment. I can and will do everything in my power to avoid offering an ounce of support for programs (and even just companies) that use it.

[rekishi]

oh no. no. why??? this is not necessary and we should have at least some place where we're not forced to be subjected to AI BS. if anyone wants to use AI let them but there are enough other browsers that have that. leave us alone! it just costs resources and won't have any added value.

[Tadaforever]

No thanks!!! No thanks with extreme prejudice!!

[lowikian]

I think having ai in the browser is not bad, altough you should always be able to disable it.

[Christ_OFF]

Please focus on making the best browser
AI could and should always be extensions
What could be a good reason to add AI inside Firefox ?
I can't find any

[zarky]

absolutely not. don't do this. you are better than this. Firefox is better than this. with everything getting AI crap shoehorned into it, be the one bastion of sanity that doesn't. Firefox needs to remain free from trendy bull**bleep** and be nothing else but a good secure browser with a focus on privacy.

NO AI IN FIREFOX

[lufthansel]

not today thanks. or ever.

[KateW]

PLEASE NO

[slbecker]

no ai ever, thanks

[odj]

keep this garbage out of firefox

[vinny1]

My suggestion would be to do it like DuckduckGo: they have a page that provides a layer to these chatbots, so you don't have to access their pages or provide personal accounts. I think this improves privacy for these closed source chatbots.

[bmagouirk]

Firefox has been one of the few bastions of integrity on this hellscape of an internet -- please do not add AI tools, features, etc, to Firefox.

[Kyoria]

I do not understand why i would need any AI features in my browser of choice.  Firefox is not missing anything for me.  Let users make ai addons - again not sure of a use case for ai and this post doesnt say much at all - if needed.  If people want ai features, wouldnt the community create?

[AraSigyrn]

This is an awful idea. You should NOT do this

[sdaugust]

"AI" is a plague. It's fueled by huge amounts of data theft and somehow even more energy waste, and it fills the internet with misinformation and regurgitated data sludge. There are actual use cases for it (i.e. generating new proteins) but this is not one of them. I thought Mozilla was one of the few organizations that could be counted on not to drink the Kool-Aid on this, but I guess not.

[LordTheodore13]

Please get rid of this.