• loobkoob@kbin.social
      613·
      10 months ago

      It’s not just about AI in Firefox, but rather making an open-sourced AI in general. The world is absolutely heading towards AI integrations being normal; personally I’m glad we’ve got Mozilla working on an AI rather than being limited to closed-source AIs made by for-profit companies.

      • Alto@kbin.social
        193·
        10 months ago

        This is basically how I see it. Whether we like it or not, its happening. Claiming it won’t at this point is just as silly as all the people who claimed the internet was just a fad.

        Better to have options, long as it’s optional I don’t have many issues with it.

        Now if it’s rammed down our throats, that’s an entirely different story.

        • deur@feddit.nl
          71·
          10 months ago

          See ya in two years when AI is dead and mozilla is pivoting to “focus on the fundamentals” and only works on the browser

          • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
            4·
            10 months ago

            They will never focus on the browser. It seems a prerequisite for being Mozilla leadership is to hate the browser and wish to remove it’s taint from the mission.

    • ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social
      4·
      10 months ago

      So, the consumer tech industry relies on hyping up technologies and blanket applying them EVERYWHERE in order to get investor funds. That’s literally the reason why. There’s investor money in AI and there’s also money to be made by lying to people and having them pay for AI-based services.

      The answer, as always, is capitalism.

      When we’re off this AI hype train, keep an eye out for what the “next big thing” is according to techbros and examine it very critically.

    • JCreazy@midwest.socialEnglish
      46·
      10 months ago

      It is where the future is headed. Companies either hop on the bandwagon or get left behind.

    • ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social
      4·
      10 months ago

      Brave isn’t trustworthy at all. They have all that scammy crypto shit, replace ads with their own ads instead (which is trash because they were misleading people and pretending it was helping folks) and used to append Amazon links with their own referral code automatically.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    5·
    10 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    After installing a new interim CEO earlier this month, Mozilla, the organization behind the Firefox browser, is making some major changes to its product strategy, TechCrunch has learned.

    Specifically, Mozilla plans to scale back its investment in a number of products, including its VPN, Relay and, somewhat remarkably, its Online Footprint Scrubber, which launched only a week ago.

    Going forward, the company said in an internal memo, Mozilla will focus on bringing “trustworthy AI into Firefox.” To do so, it will bring together the teams that work on Pocket, Content and AI/Ml.

    Mozilla started expanding its product portfolio in recent years, all while its flagship product, Firefox, kept losing market share.

    And while the organization was often sharply criticized for this, its leadership argued that diversifying its product portfolio beyond Firefox was necessary to ensure Mozilla’s survival in the long run.

    Firefox, after all, provided the vast majority of Mozilla’s income, but it also meant the organization was essentially dependent on Google to continue this deal.

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