We heard you like AI, here is more AI in Firefox: AI link previews.
We heard you like AI, here is more AI in Firefox: AI link previews.
blog.mozilla.org
Exploring on-device AI link previews in Firefox | The Mozilla Blog
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You heard wrong.
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I'm pretty sure they are doing this to try win over chrome users
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Nobody really likes AI other than it being a gimmick that you cant really trust in the first place since it might halucinate. So since youbhave to check everything it says in the first place youbcould just do whatever it does in the first place without wasting resources for calculation
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you would be surprised how many believe most things an AI says. I would think its rougly the same userbase that can't tell the differences between firefox and chrome even in generalities, other than its looks. "the consumerbase"
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Mozilla leadership sure has gone down the drain.
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its been a while
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We heard you like AI
...did you? Did you really?
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That's not the actual title of the article...
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"We heard investors like AI"
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Hey Mozilla, here's a hint: nobody likes AI.
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Hey Mozilla, if we wanted ai, we would use chrome
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I have no issue with AI
Just stop with the useless integrations. I don't need AI on every single thing. I would much rather have something lighter weight.
Firefox translations are cool but that's about it from a usefulness perspective
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hey @ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org, here's a hint: you don't have to use it ;)
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In my humble but correct opinion, Mozilla should be doing two things and two things only:
- Building THE reference implementation web browser, and
- Being a jugular-snapping attack dog on standards committees.
- There is no 3.
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Arc has a similar feature, but last I checked it used ChatGPT. Firefox runs a local model, so it avoids the privacy issue.
I have no problem with this in principle. The question is, does it suck? Document summary is a use case LLMs are well suited for, but it's still highly application-specific. I've seen great summarizers and I've seen garbage summarizers. Hopefully Mozilla's implementation is not as lazy as most others.
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🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
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The feature looks like absolute shit. Their supposed use-case is "you opened a bunch of tabs and none of them have what you need" and yet they expect you instead to sit there with your mouse hovering over a link, while holding a shortcut on the keyboard, waiting for the AI summary to finish loading? That would slow you down about 10x versus just opening all the links and looking at the page?
If they wanted link previews, why didn't they just prefetch the page and render it normally in a preview thumbnail like the ones that you now get when hovering over an open tab?
Mindless shoe-horning of AI into the product to check some kind of box for the overpaid C-suite. For shame.
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It's so slow it'd probably be faster to just click the link and glance it over yourself.
Maybe there's good uses for local LLMs in a browser but this feature here is one lame gimmick
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By all accounts, this sucks.
I tried the link preview feature on a link to the English Wikipedia article about Touhou Project, and the LLM's key points are just hilariously bad. For some reason it's focusing too much on the PS4 and Nintendo Switch (which the LLM "thinks" were both released on August 15, 1997). I have a screenshot 6 days ago when it wasn't a Firefox Labs feature yet in my Misskey:
https://makai.chaotic.ninja/notes/a6d86p8n26
Tried it today in an updated Nightly and the key points are still the same lol.
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To activate a Link Preview, hover over a link and press Shift (⇧) plus Alt (Option ⌥ on macOS),
Thanks god it's not default.
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Please no… I hope it can be disabled.
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I actually don't think the idea is terrible, but judging from other local AI Firefox stuff (translation for example) it's probably pretty bad.
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Yes!! AI. AI.
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Total mozilla death NOW!
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You might want to avoid "total anything death" phrases
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Horray I guess
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