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And what would these standards be, pray tell, @mozilla ?
Keeping in mind that you are including services that told people to eat rocks or put glue on a pizza?
> Our initial offering will include ChatGPT, Google Gemini, HuggingChat, and Le Chat Mistral, but we will continue adding AI services that meet our standards for quality and user experience.
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-news/ai-services-on-firefox/
/via @alxd
As #Mozilla is busy adding AI crap to #Firefox, I would like to point out that it's about 13 years since they removed the #RSS button from default Firefox GUI, and six years since RSS support was completely dropped from Firefox.
Thus making feeds invisible and impossible to discover for most web users.
RSS/Atom/JSON feeds are an immensely useful and important tech that can help solve the content discovery problem *without* going through gatekeepers. 
But obviously not a priority for Mozilla.
This is another in a long string of bad decisions based on what #Mozilla *thinks* users want or expect from #Firefox.
And in a lot of these cases it feels like it's basically hype-chasing after Chrome. 
End result of this ingenious strategy is the dismal market share of Firefox today. Because to a lot of people it's just a "shitty Chrome".
Instead, Mozilla could *lead* and do things no other browser vendor could or would, as these would undermine the vendor's parent company's business model.
@rysiek Not a fan of angry toots or "clowning" on anything. But I do agree with sentiment that adding those features to Firefox is a mistake.
Decided to make an account and add my feedback to https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/share-your-feedback-on-the-ai-services-experiment-in-nightly/m-p/60923/highlight/true#M21340.
Granted, I could do a better job compiling and providing arguments why it's bad idea, but I don't think I have enough energy.
I do believe that those additions go against principles Mozilla set for itself. Sadly. Perhaps in few years we may see them following Google steps of removing "Don't be evil" clause from its Code of Conduct.
@rysiek@mstdn.social@Frisk thank you for taking the time, this is really well written! I can only hope Mozilla takes it to heart.
@rysiek Thank you! No LLM used in creation of that comment ;)
And when writing it I've learned of AIAAIC initiative which wow, is pretty awesome! Strange I didn't hear about it until I started doing research/trying to find links I saw in the past. https://www.aiaaic.org/home
@rysiek FYI Mozilla employee has responded https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/share-your-feedback-on-the-ai-services-experiment-in-nightly/m-p/60923/highlight/true#M21340
To paraphrase the response it seems to me like it says: "we have made the feature adaptable to many products and market surely will figure out how to make a product that addresses your concerns"... Which is... Not great.
I don't think "we'll just support those technologies and hope they get better" is a responsible thing to do but Mozilla gonna Mozilla I suppose.