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“How? It will continue to invest in privacy-respecting advertising; fund, develop and push open-source AI features”
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Privacy-respecting advertising seems like some devil's deal to make money, not a fan.
Open source AI is cool though. Not sure how they'll make money from that.
I'm not sure what AI would be good for in Firefox, beyond local translation which is already in place. Web browsers and email clients are there to display content made by humans, not generate content for humans to consume.
Translation, photo description, accessibility features overall, summarization, explanation, general help system and same kind of stuff that people use AI in general for. But having it open source and preferably local would be a huge plus. AI is a tool, you can use it for a shitload of things.
Ha! If only that were the case still.
If other people want something else than a web browser that's fine by me, but then I will at least not be interested any more.
Thankfully Gnome Web is quickly maturing.
Firefox already has Pocket, offline translation, password manager in it (and other stuff too I bet). Someone could say those are just tools assisting in web browsing but that's what AI is/can be too.
Sure, there are possibilities, I'm just very sceptical of the browser itself being the producer of the content I consume. Sometimes translation is necessary of course, so it's not a rule set in stone.
I agree with you accessibility could be one field where it could be very useful. If this is the priority, I think Mozilla should say they prioritize accessibility, not that they prioritize AI. Machine learning can be a useful tool towards certain ends, but it con never be an end in its own right.
Note that this “privacy respecting advertising” is not the same as Google’s or Facebook’s “privacy respecting advertising” technology, but a novel form of adtech which claims to preserve* privacy**.