Firefox uses on-device downloaded-on-demand ML models for privacy-preserving translation.

[pelle@veganism.social]

@rose_alibi
i like the #firefox #translation because it helps make the web less US-centric by making international web more accssible.

#firefox #translations actually respect privacy, as opposed to #googletranslate, so i can use them for the government websites that i don't always understand, because i'm not swedish speaker.

i don't get why this feature is lumped in with the privacy nightmare chat bots?

[tock@corteximplant.com]

@firefoxwebdevs LLM is quantity, not quality. I don't see a distinction between "Open Data" and corporate raiding of the Internet, it's the same issue.

Aggregating data to replace logic until it can replace logic a percentage of the time is the issue. It's reintroducing a solved problem because shareholders want AI down everyone's throats.

[w6kme@mastodon.radio]

@raymaccarthy @firefoxwebdevs @zzt I don't want a "browser experience". If it's doing its job, I won't be aware of it at all. I only use a browser as a viewer of content, period.

A browser should make websites viewable and allow the user to store locations in a way that makes sense to the *user*. Not a designer, not a bonehead CEO who thinks AI is really spiffy.

That's all it should do. It's very clear that browser execs never use tools. They have no idea what "tool" means.

[froztbyte@mastodon.social]

@firefoxwebdevs I mean realistically, we have about:config at home, and y'all are already not respecting that

why the future "KILL SWITCH" carrot? it just comes across like a Musk promise

[m0rpk@mastodon.radio]

@firefoxwebdevs The frame of this question is risible.

I am begging you to just make a web browser.

Make it the best browser for the open web. Make it a browser that empowers individuals. Make it a browser that defends users against threats.

Do not make a search engine. Do not make a translation engine. Do not make a webpage summariser. Do not make a front-end for an LLM. Do not make a client-side LLM.

Just. Make. A. Web. Browser.

Please.

[dualkei@hachyderm.io]

@raymaccarthy @firefoxwebdevs @zzt
+1, and fix the excessive idle CPU consumption !

[simonzerafa@infosec.exchange]

@firefoxwebdevs

Please just create a very good browser and drop all of the AI bollocks.

It's not helping. No-one wants it. Improve the rendering engine and fix bugs.

Please! 🙏

[realn2s@infosec.exchange]

@m0rpk @firefoxwebdevs
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[dalias@hachyderm.io]

@firefoxwebdevs Said translation should be an opt-in extension you can install if you want it. Not a core component at all.

[rycochet@furs.social]

@firefoxwebdevs @zzt You ignored the firefox userbase's voice when it came to adding AI in the first place, don't pretend you're listening now when you're really just trying to get the users to come up with justifications for what you have already decided to do. Firefox users have repeatedly said we do not want AI features imstalled by default, you chose not to listen and now you're trying to find ways you can feel less bad about that by pretending you gave people options when it comes to AI usage, rather than taking one away.

If you cared about what 'the community' wants, you would have asked people when the AI notion was first pitched and taken no for an answer, but yet again, AI enthusiasts have acted without consent.

[vasthypno@mastodon.hypnoguys.com]

@firefoxwebdevs dunno, deleted as soon as you added Artificial Intelligence and never came back.

[hdv@front-end.social]

@firefoxwebdevs as a user, I like and use translation. Having one app render and translate content makes sense to me.

I like how you do it (incl on-device, on-demand and privacy-preserving, and open data (assuming it means not copyrighted?)).

Because of both, it is clearly different from other “AI” to me, even if it technically would use language models that are large, and this poll makes sense to me.

It's tricky, I voted, but wasn't super sure. I think granular controls would be great.

[ptesarik@infosec.exchange]

@saphkey @raymaccarthy Printing with curl for Dummies. When?

[liquor_american@universeodon.com]

@pixel @firefoxwebdevs @zzt I hope our friend resists the urge to put a pretty face on all of our blunt feedback before the next meeting where the objective will be further redefining what level of damage control will magically turn Mozilla's bad choices into good ones.

[chris@nutmeg.social]

@firefoxwebdevs I appreciate that you're asking us Firefox users for our opinion on a feature. Keep doing this please.

[zzt@mas.to]

@liquor_american @pixel @firefoxwebdevs I suspect the only feedback that’ll get relayed is the feedback from the posters who still kneejerk defend Mozilla as an institution. the rest of us are just too rude to be counted as part of the community (because we use and care deeply about Firefox and hate the entirely avoidable path it’s gone down)

[sil@mastodon.social]

@gatesvp @firefoxwebdevs @jmax of course there's much "AI" stuff in firefox. I'm assuming that it would all be listed, and all disableable. The CEO promised "a clear way to turn AI features off... A real kill switch" -- if all that other stuff qualifies as "AI", then that means it'll be turn-off-able, no?
I agree that it's hard to engage with non-specific anger; I think the way to add clarity to that conversation is to be specific, about which AI parts are in Moz and where they came from.

[dante@masto.posting.haus]

@firefoxwebdevs come on man.

[froztbyte@mastodon.social]

@firefoxwebdevs going through all the other replies and your lack of response to any of them..

“why are there flaming bags of poop on my porch, and why do they all have different postmarks”

[jackbeanland@oslo.town]

@firefoxwebdevs I love the on-device translations and don't really want the other stuff.
Yes the kill switch should ideally be a settings page with many toggles for all ML-like features and an obvious master enable/disable-all toggle at the top of the page.