Besides that, Google is controlling as fuck. They might keep fucking themselves over but there's no way they won't start attempting to ruin things for the rest of us.

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

It seems Mozilla is not immune to the AI hype. I just hope their AI endeavour won't kill them when the AI hype finally ends.

[–] kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Thankfully the AI use is very tame so far, used for stuff like offline alt text generation and offline translation. I'm personally still concerned about copyrights and ethics of the models used, but at least it's directed towards providing specific features, not a magic cure-all.

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 9 points 5 months ago

I'm more concerned with Mozilla spending its meager resources to chase some fads instead of focusing on improving firefox.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

to be fair they are the only ones i know of putting it to actual good use.

ai itself is not the problem.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Thats the problem tho, the new mozilla leadership is on the "do anything but nothing" ship. I really hope they either dont do anything too horrible or someone forks it if they do.

[–] unusual_anarchist@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 5 months ago

there are already forks in place if you're dissatisfied with firefox like librewolf, floorp or the new one from mullvad

[–] olafurp@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Yeah, it's been a huge waste of resources trying to reinvent everything.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago

Steam's strategy was to be first to market and essentially the only player in the game for a decade, making themselves the default.