Mozilla launches the new AI add-on Orbit

without sacrificing your privacy

Pls explain:

We also receive the following information from third parties when you use the Service:

Inputs and Outputs. When you use the Service to summarize or query web content, we automatically receive a payload back from the relevant [Third-Party Models] containing the contents of your query; information about the model queried (such as the name and version number); information about technical problems with processing the query, if any; the number of tokens required to process the query; and the model Outputs in response to the query. We do not store this data beyond temporarily caching it to process your query and return the Outputs to you.

Reminds me of the "summaries" from the 1975 Rollerball movie.

The characters in that corporate dystopia only had access to corporate-provided summaries of literature.

They couldn't access the original novels and works without high-level corporate authorization.

I will not be willingly adding any AI.

Gave it a try.

I don't like the floaty orb thing present on my window at all times. Even the "Minimal" option sticks around on the side. I like Kagi's extension more as it only opens after I click on it in the toolbar.

Gave it a try with a few YouTube videos and compared it against Kagi's universal summarizer.

Example: Scams In Software Engineering

While Orbit was faster in generating its summary, I much prefer the Kagi one as it appears to be more complete. Orbit had a few issues:

• Inaccuracy: BigBox is the name of the channel, not the name of the video.
• Lack of comprehensiveness: Orbit's "paragraph" style response format missed a lot of information that Kagi caught.
• Didn't catch the satirical/light-hearted tone of the video like Kagi did.

Needs work, IMO.

Another thing to note: Kagi requires an account but the summarizer otherwise is free. Orbit does not require an account.

I'm not testing it with emails as I would want the model to run locally to access personal data.