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RE: https://mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdevs/115849251057488746

I find the "trained on open data" line of reasoning really weird.

The datasets behind these models are from web scrapes, containing many sentences clearly taken from news websites that don't appear to have licensed their IP for that purpose - I don't see a difference between that and AI companies scanning in copyrighted books or art.

(Note: I'm not making a judgment either way on this, but if you are branding yourself on AI ethics, I think you need to be consistent in how you talk about this)

The overhead of disabling every single AI-first change in Firefox is already starting to weigh on firefox-forks.

My view on this hasn't really shifted in the last few months: unless an existing organization, with strong principles, steps forwards and commits to a hard fork I don't really see a future for Firefox.

(I think there are probably only 1-2 orgs with the combination of experience / maturity to actually pull that off, and none of them seem to be even considering that kind of future)

Mozilla insist that people trust them. I assume they have insight and metrics that reinforce that view.

Perhaps I am getting old and this truly is the only path forward to maintain an independent browser.

I continue to feel that this is a terrible idea that has likely irrevocably jeopardized the future of firefox and, by extension, the open web.

Mozilla has a new CEO. Once again iterating that the future of Firefox is AI first, AI by default:

"Firefox will grow from a browser into a broader ecosystem of trusted software"

"It will evolve into a modern AI browser"

"AI should always be a choice — something people can easily turn off."

Source: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/leadership/mozillas-next-chapter-anthony-enzor-demeo-new-ceo/