Fully agree, this is a huge breach of trust and throws away a lot of good faith from the user base. Even just on a technical level, AI is extremely unreliable, it can't even hit the lowest bar of providing accurate information consistently, not to me...
I'm switching browsers again, I trusted Firefox explicitly because there was no AI integration and no plans to follow it, this is a huge breach of that trust and throws away a lot of the good will this user base has for something that should be funct...
I would much prefer my favorite browser not fall into the AI fad, I have a lot of ethical issues with AI right now and I don't want to have to reconsider using Firefox for it's purposeful embrace of broken AI systems