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Well, you have the option to elaborate otherwise. Huge effort to normalize this survey.

There's nothing wrong with using an LLM for offline private language translation. It literally preserves privacy by not simply sending all that data to a Google translation server.

There's nothing wrong with using offline image recognition to aid in helping blind people know what's on their screen.

As for their "advertising" - you should look up what they actually did. It completely preserves privacy while at the same time not completely destroying the economic model that content creators rely on. It's a good thing. With any luck, regulators will enforce it.

right? mozilla, you gotta focus on making a good web browser right now. not a more gimmicky web browser

I agree that's basically what I out in the text box underneath the AI multi-select options. "We don't want yet another annoying AI search feature or chatbot! We want a focus on useable features and security!"

Private, offline language translation is not "no tangible benefit".

Neither is alt-text generation for images to assist blind people in searching the web. That's a massive feature.

E: idk whether you're down voting because you don't want privacy or because you don't like blind people lol

You're free to send your data to google or deepl instead of using Firefox's included AI translate. You know, privacy, no AI in the browser, choose one.

But their AI helps protect privacy? The main thing it's currently used for is offline private translation that doesn't send data to Google's servers.

The other main AI feature they're working on is AI-generated alt-text for untagged images, so that blind people can better use the web.

I feel like you're doing the classic Lemmy/Reddit thing of seeing the letters "AI" and automatically freaking out, before looking into what they're actually doing. We aren't talking about ChatGPT integration here...

Helping blind people use computers is a good thing.

Private, offline translation is a good thing.

If they had called these features "machine learning" instead of "AI", it would make zero function difference, but you wouldn't be reacting in this manner.

~~I see a textbox saying "What do you want to see from Mozilla in the future?" You could add it there, as justification for why you want them to focus less on it~~

There is a text box part way through, I included my more general thoughts there

(my comment was getting rambly)

There's lot of reasons to hate AI. Spreading misinformation about renewable energy isn't one of them

My brother in Lemmy, how do you think they pay their engineers?

Would you rather them try and get revenue through advertising means? Because that's what it sounds like, no decision is a decision.

"Responsible use of AI" could mean things like providing small offline models for client-side translation. They're actually building that feature and the preview is already amazing.

It's because it is a positive thing. Just because awful businesses hijacked and abused it doesn't mean it's all bad. Mozilla is approaching it in a positive way imo.

I did the same thing. I just want a product or service that doesn't leverage AI. Mozilla's resources are better spent improving the web.