Firefox uses on-device downloaded-on-demand ML models for privacy-preserving translation.
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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 I use Firefox, because it is a decent, secure browser with a nice plugin system. I want a browser to be a browser. If I wanted it to be AI, or I wanted it to mine Bitcoins, or spy on me and show me ads, or have 1001 other useless features, I'd choose from a number of other alternatives. When you start pushing useless features like this, I am seriously considering switching the browser. This is how many browsers died, you didn't do your homework. *Nobody* prohibits you from creating useless AIs and serving them as extensions.
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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 Be a browser, let translation services do translation. If people have need for translation MLs they can get them on their own. -
@firefoxwebdevs @yoasif @fmasy @Rycochet @zzt A poll with no "No LLMs" is not a sincere one..
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@davidgerard @yoasif @fmasy @Rycochet @zzt I realise your position is immutable, but I've already used the results of this survey to push for a change to the design of the kill switch. I'm grateful to everyone who responded.
@firefoxwebdevs @davidgerard @yoasif @fmasy @Rycochet @zzt So you are pushing for only adding LLM stuff as addons then?...
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@firefoxwebdevs @mawhrin @zzt @yoasif @fmasy @Rycochet @davidgerard Since you have not provided options for the opinion that people will have here, and included one for
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@bjn @StarkRG @firefoxwebdevs @davidgerard Wasn't it Mark Zuckerberg of whom it was said, in the early days of Facebook, "if you're not paying for the product you ARE the product"?
@cstross @bjn @StarkRG @firefoxwebdevs @davidgerard it's older than that. The phrase dates from "free" broadcast TV at least.
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@m I agree the folks I'm polling here do not represent the average user, but in this case I'm specifically interested in the thoughts of those who really dislike 'AI', and I think I've reached them
@firefoxwebdevs @m So you decided from the discussions last time that you didn't want opt in at all, like microsoft renaming office to "copilot app" this is nothing but doing a 3 card monty to try and fool people into validating your fractally wrong interpretation of what "opt in" is.
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@firefoxwebdevs @mawhrin @zzt @yoasif @fmasy @Rycochet @davidgerard Since you have not provided options for the opinion that people will have here, and included one for
the results can not be correct.. -
@firefoxwebdevs @m So you decided from the discussions last time that you didn't want opt in at all, like microsoft renaming office to "copilot app" this is nothing but doing a 3 card monty to try and fool people into validating your fractally wrong interpretation of what "opt in" is.
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@firefoxwebdevs you know if you had a button in settings that said "no AI" the majority of your userbase would click that button.
Phrased as "you know" because you DO know. You also know that the userbase tend to contain people happy to toggle settings meaning that if the userbase grows to those who don't care that's fine too.
So just get a clear toggle and watch people toggle it.
@ohyran Absolutely looking forward to the feature landing so folks can do just that!
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@firefoxwebdevs @noah We also don't trust to you keep your word.
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@firefoxwebdevs I voted in the poll for the least bad option, but I now regret that. Because it’s all so pointless isn’t it? You don’t actually care what I think or what the other users think. If you did you would have asked if we wanted ai slop at all, not what flavour of slop we preferred.
@Abigyil I've already used the results of this poll to push for change in the AI kill switch feature. The feedback has been really useful, and I'm grateful for it.
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@firefoxwebdevs @mawhrin @zzt @yoasif @fmasy @Rycochet @davidgerard
You ignored the real question to comment on something inconsequenctial, this is a well known propaganda and domination technique, answer the question I asked instead....
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Put them where they belong, as an extension...
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@firefoxwebdevs @xela If you are doing PR for the company about how great AI is, maybe it would be nice for you to know what you are talking about?...
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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 Way to manually enable and disable extensions from toolbar would be good -
@firefoxwebdevs @xela I read earlier that everything goes into english so that if I translate something from swedish to norwegian, two very closely related languages firefox will translate from swedish into english, then from english into norwegian, this is per definition a shitty feature that introduces a ton of vagueries, and multiplies errors by over a magnitude, but I guess as an english speaker something like that would never occur to you, because you don't have to deal with the shitty consequences of such an anglocentric decision.
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@firefoxwebdevs @xela If you didn't think it was great you would do the sensible thing and develop them as addons rather than including them into the executable to pump up the number of people seen using it...
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@firefoxwebdevs @mawhrin @zzt @yoasif @fmasy @Rycochet @davidgerard
Well, yes, the poll output is inaccurate.
There was no „Dont put any AI in Firefox“ or „Make AI an Add-On only“ option. You’re framing of the poll presupposes there being AI in the product, implying an incorrect necessity.
Why are you ruining this browser with this crap?
option for people who just want to see the result without voting, rather than make a non-serious vote. It's a pretty common thing to do.
