Mozilla has 1.4 BILLION dollars that they are spending on some AI bullshit.

[jwz@mastodon.social]

Mozilla has 1.4 BILLION dollars that they are spending on some AI bullshit.

That's billion with a B. So if you held out hope that filling out surveys or shitposting through it might turn this ship around, no. That much money has an event horizon.

Mozilla is cooked.

https://jwz.org/b/yk2n

[cdamian@rls.social]

@jwz
Meanwhile the AI companies are burning the planet to build browsers from scratch as a benchmark.
https://cursor.com/blog/scaling-agents

This is how we all lose.

[cstross@wandering.shop]

@jwz My read is that Google—Mozilla's main funding source these days—have *ordered* them to spend money on AI (meanwhile supplying the money to do so). No mainstream browser may remain uncompromised by the grift. amirite?

[alfacinco@mastodon.social]

@jwz Pues yo ya he desinstalado Firefox de todos mis disposivos..., bye Mozilla 👋🏻

[abbe98@mastodon.social]

@jwz according to Mozilla they will spend $130 million on AI bullshit. The $1.4 billion number is their total reserves.

https://stateof.mozilla.org/ledger/

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@cstross @jwz well, in Google's case the pressure is most likely internal. For Mozilla it'd be interesting to see if there was a gentle push from the outside or if this is inbred^W in-board general idiocy.