Firefox uses on-device downloaded-on-demand ML models for privacy-preserving translation.
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@duke_of_germany @firefoxwebdevs @davidgerard @tante
4th option: i was a Firefox user until they fed it up with AI@efialto @duke_of_germany @firefoxwebdevs @davidgerard @tante
Ditto.
I used Firefox until they announced the addition of AI into future versions, then I stopped updating it. On my Linux systems I switched to Librewolf and now consider completely uninstalling my older version of Firefox.
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Firefox uses on-device downloaded-on-demand ML models for privacy-preserving translation.
They're not LLMs. They're trained on open data.
Should translation be disabled if the AI 'kill switch' is active?
@firefoxwebdevs where is the option for it to be an extension that i can just not install at all because i dont care for such a non-essential feature -
@zzt I posted this poll after a meeting where we discussed the design of the kill switch, and there was uncertainty around translations. I want to make sure the community's voice is represented in these discussions.
The community has pretty vociferously stated "preferably leave AI to add-ons instead of building it in, and DEFINITELY no AI by default"
If the add-on system can't handle all the AI needs, maybe focus on fixing the add-on system so it can; rather than ramming undesired AI into an already-RAM-and-CPU-gobbling application.
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@vik no, you're just grandstanding. Don't be an arse on the internet.
@funkylab Well, you'll get that when someone says "here are the reasons" and you go "they're not reasons". Probably little point in having any other discourse with you at this point. @julienw @m0rpk @firefoxwebdevs
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Firefox uses on-device downloaded-on-demand ML models for privacy-preserving translation.
They're not LLMs. They're trained on open data.
Should translation be disabled if the AI 'kill switch' is active?
@firefoxwebdevs oh, fuck off. You know perfectly well what we mean when we say get the “AI” out of the damn browser. This triangulation isn’t doing what you think it’s doing.
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@firefoxwebdevs oh, fuck off. You know perfectly well what we mean when we say get the “AI” out of the damn browser. This triangulation isn’t doing what you think it’s doing.
@rowmyboat assuming a kill switch is landing (which it is), do you disagree with the results of the poll?
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@truh @firefoxwebdevs I generally agree, but I can see exceptions for things such as accessibility features (translation is accessibility), and other features that extend user facing non-ai features and are done with local small models, as long as they are off by default.
@DiogoConstantino @firefoxwebdevs Why not make it an extension? I only see advantages. People who don't like it can remove it entirely without patching and recompiling Firefox. It'd also make sure that the extension API has the necessary features so that other people can build better accessibility features
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Firefox uses on-device downloaded-on-demand ML models for privacy-preserving translation.
They're not LLMs. They're trained on open data.
Should translation be disabled if the AI 'kill switch' is active?
@firefoxwebdevs We want a browser. We don't want AI.
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@duke_of_germany @firefoxwebdevs @davidgerard @tante
I don't care as long as it doesn't interfere with proper browsing.
@sibrosan @duke_of_germany @firefoxwebdevs @davidgerard@circumstances.run @tante
It's spying on you. All Gen AI is an espionage attack surface for the technofascist state.
You might not notice that ICE and Trump's buddies can look at your web surfing whenever they want.
But you won't see it, so that's okay!
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Firefox uses on-device downloaded-on-demand ML models for privacy-preserving translation.
They're not LLMs. They're trained on open data.
Should translation be disabled if the AI 'kill switch' is active?
@firefoxwebdevs The amount of feature popups during normale browsing gets more and more annoying. I wish my browser of choice would leave me the frack alone or at least ask me these questions directly on first launch (setup screen). Feels more and more like "taming" WIndows after a fresh installation of Firefox.
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@sibrosan @duke_of_germany @firefoxwebdevs @davidgerard@circumstances.run @tante
It's spying on you. All Gen AI is an espionage attack surface for the technofascist state.
You might not notice that ICE and Trump's buddies can look at your web surfing whenever they want.
But you won't see it, so that's okay!
lol hachyderm won't let you link me
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@raymaccarthy sounds like what you want is curl
@saphkey
Curl (or wget) are sometimes useful to download a site and later edit/convert to an epub for an ereader.Unless I'm an idiot, curl doesn't seem useful to print part of a web page or interactively view.
I hate sites that only "load" more as your scroll down that are net even that big and not "endless" like social media. Also why no "codex" mode on web browsers like ebooks? Scrolling is so 2000 years ago.
Simulate paged web sites with a paper size that fits window & Print Preview. -
@DiogoConstantino @firefoxwebdevs Why not make it an extension? I only see advantages. People who don't like it can remove it entirely without patching and recompiling Firefox. It'd also make sure that the extension API has the necessary features so that other people can build better accessibility features
@truh @firefoxwebdevs because accessibility should always be a major native feature.
People who don't like accessibility features being native features, don't have an acceptable argument.
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@cobweb what details about the poll do you feel are incorrect, and how do you feel the incorrectness impacted the result?
@jaffathecake please send a minimum $1000 donation and I can answer this question for you, you can find my ko-fi here: https://Ko-fi.com/cobweb_ci
Your other option should be to bring this poll to anyone within your organization with a statistics and/or math background for redesign. Also delete this post.
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@DiogoConstantino @firefoxwebdevs A "live switch" would do the same but has to be activated before to enable the slop.
Seeing that FF activated the slop without having the option to deactivate it (beside in about:config) lets me think the "kill switch" would/will mean opt-out.@CyberPunker @firefoxwebdevs it's not true that there's active AI by default on Firefox.
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@angelfeast @zzt @yoasif @fmasy @Rycochet @davidgerard as in, you don't think there should be an option to re-enable it, or that it should be enabled by default?
@firefoxwebdevs @zzt @yoasif @fmasy @Rycochet @davidgerard as in it should be disabled. this is something that should be an optional extension, not baked into a browser.
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@firefoxwebdevs @angelfeast @zzt @yoasif @fmasy @Rycochet
failure to address this bit:
> the poll was misleading
@davidgerard @firefoxwebdevs @zzt @yoasif @fmasy @Rycochet yeah i would like to see some acknowledgement that the language was misleading.
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Let's ask the real question:
Firefox users,
do you want any AI directly built into Firefox, or separated out into extensions?
@duke_of_germany @firefoxwebdevs @davidgerard @tante Am I a firefox user if I use a derivative like waterfox?
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@dahukanna @firefoxwebdevs this thread is not about an LLM, or AI-ML feature.
Translations are an accessibility feature, essential for many around the world, this should be a native feature, unless you don' t care about accessibility.
Hi @DiogoConstantino question was “Firefox uses on-device downloaded-on-demand (machine learning, subset of artificial intelligence that automatically enables a machine or system to learn & improve from experience-https://cloud.google.com/learn/artificial-intelligence-vs-machine-learning) ML models for privacy-preserving translation.”
That’s what I responded to. I did not advocate to remove “Translations as an accessibility feature”. Rather to allow the user to select & consent to the feature with a specific implementation. -
Hi @DiogoConstantino question was “Firefox uses on-device downloaded-on-demand (machine learning, subset of artificial intelligence that automatically enables a machine or system to learn & improve from experience-https://cloud.google.com/learn/artificial-intelligence-vs-machine-learning) ML models for privacy-preserving translation.”
That’s what I responded to. I did not advocate to remove “Translations as an accessibility feature”. Rather to allow the user to select & consent to the feature with a specific implementation.@dahukanna That's was not the question.
It's not about gathering data to train, or fine tune any model, or improving the model in any way. It's about using the model to make translations for languages that you authorize translations (automatically, or on-demand).
If you know the feature, you'll know that it's not used before the user authorizes it, and it can be controlled with some granularity.
