Mozilla: AI is Going Deeper in Firefox, But Trust me Bro we Are Not Going to Data Mine You or Sell Your Data.
Mozilla: AI is Going Deeper in Firefox, But Trust me Bro we Are Not Going to Data Mine You or Sell Your Data.
Firefox is expanding its AI-powered features, all designed to keep your data private. We believe technology should serve you, not monitor you. Our team und
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all these AI features seem like the most useless waste of GPU I have ever seen implemented! Why the hell do I need recommendations for the names of my tab groups? I freaking love that the tech industries' idea of progress in the 2020's is wasting resources on nothing.
Yeah, translation is the only thing here I have any desire at all to use
There are other practical things to use a browser-based AI for, like accessibility improvements for sites that didn’t provide proper alt text or other accessibility features.
But I think an important one few people are talking about is an AI “babysitter” for my grandma so she doesn’t fall for phishing scams. Ad blocking does a lot to protect people there but some smarter detection would be good for a significant chunk of society. Not that this exists yet.
Yeah, I think accessibility is one of the few potentially actually valuable use cases for generative AI.
If you can generate alt text completely locally in a private open source way that'd be pretty cool. It'd be nice if it funtioned as a extension that only does anything when you intentionally call it, at least by default. Maybe mapped to a keyboard shortcut, but I don't know enough about what visually impaired users need to have a meaningful perspective on how the user experience should be implemented.
But I've yet to see any companies talk about how that's what they're gonna use AI for. To me, AI has hypothetical usefulness specifically for tasks that are really important but that in practice no one actually puts resources into, or has any resource to put into.
I also kinda wonder if local-only AI moderation tools could also make it a lot easier for fediverse mods to cover a lot of ground, or could abstract really disturbing content to reduce the mental load of moderating out the worst content folks post on the internet.
But no one is interested in AI tech so they can build useful things, theyre interested in it because they can steal peoples intellectual labor and build products without having to pay the people who would produce that intellectual labor.
TBF, I love my tab groups, and honestly having to come up with and type out a name for each of them is the biggest hurdle. It's a small thing, but I can imagine myself using tab groups even more because of it.
Tab group 1
tab group 2
..Honestly if it prefilled something like that that would already be an improvement, at least to create temporary ones (though in practice, they're probably never temporary).
I, on the other hand, don't keep many tabs open normally, and the groups I use are of temporary convenience if I'm doing a lot of things at the same time.
I can easily spend a few seconds typing the group name in because I already know what the group is used for. I already have a name in mind, I don't need the AI to slowly second-guess me.
...and if you don't know what the group is used for, maybe allowing groups to remain initially unnamed would be a good design choice?
Oh speed is definitely going to be the make-it-or-break it here. I do usually know the name without thinking, but it's having to type it (and preferably without typos) that's the effort that would be nice to save.
It feels really stupid, because it's really not that much effort. But I know myself - I also really like contactless payments, even though it really wasn't that much effort to insert my card and type in my PIN. Yet it's a small convenience for something that I do with some regularity. I imagine the same for this feature.