In response to user feedback on AI integration, Mozilla announced today that the next Firefox release will let users disable AI features entirely or manage them individually.
In response to user feedback on AI integration, Mozilla announced today that the next Firefox release will let users disable AI features entirely or manage them individually.
You can put it right in the user’s face when they install or update, but the default should be off.
Yeah, they should introduce a button to enable AI, not disable it. This implicit consent bullshit is getting old.
And even if you enable it, it should work with local LLMs. And at least from the article it doesn’t appear to be the case.
The sidebar chatbots is something you have to explicitly interact with, so no it’s not using remote LLMs without your input. Every other feature is local.
I know it’s not using them without my input, what I’m saying is that there should be a local option.
A local option with enough sophistication to impress anyone would have terrible performance on the vast majority of PCs and laymen would takeaway a bad impression without understanding why
A laymen won’t be able to point Firefox at their local LLM installation that they don’t have, to be able to have any impression.