LibreOffice 26.8 became the app’s most popular update, with over 1 million downloads, after the foundation behind it declared that LibreOffice doesn’t come with generative AI features due to the…
Firefox has local AI built-in. I really wish people would stop referring to silicon valley technocrat cloud offerings as AI. AI has existed for 70 years. Plenty of academics and innovators that did the hard work to improve science and research opposed to unchecked capitalists trying to exploit it for their oppressive endeavors. AI isn’t inherently good or bad. If you hate technocratic tech bros then just say that.
The Altmans, Palantirs and Musks all refer to their shitty products they’re shoving in every product as ‘AI’, and people understand - they’re talking about LLMs. The haters of that group say ‘I fucking hate AI’ and people understand - they’re talking about big corporate LLMs, not some protein folding model that’s helping to cure cancer.
Its not complex, and people don’t need to elaborate.
They declared they have no AI features. The features in Firefox are still AI features. They aren’t needed. They’re a waste of development time and are useless.
I literally say this as someone that has contributed to Firefox.
I have little against the local translation feature, especially givent the fact it isn’t bundled but a seperate download.
That being said, there are higher priorities, like better history and bookmarks, because the current sidebars are 20+ years old and it shows. Chrome has had it figured out for 10 years straight now.
The right way for AI features would be to partner with outside orgs and projects. As you said, they’re a waste of development time. And given how much low hanging fruit there is, there’s no justification for following AI trends instead of doing basic UX hygiene.
Firefox has local AI built-in. I really wish people would stop referring to silicon valley technocrat cloud offerings as AI. AI has existed for 70 years. Plenty of academics and innovators that did the hard work to improve science and research opposed to unchecked capitalists trying to exploit it for their oppressive endeavors. AI isn’t inherently good or bad. If you hate technocratic tech bros then just say that.
I have no idea what you’re trying to say after reading three times.
The Altmans, Palantirs and Musks all refer to their shitty products they’re shoving in every product as ‘AI’, and people understand - they’re talking about LLMs. The haters of that group say ‘I fucking hate AI’ and people understand - they’re talking about big corporate LLMs, not some protein folding model that’s helping to cure cancer.
Its not complex, and people don’t need to elaborate.
They declared they have no AI features. The features in Firefox are still AI features. They aren’t needed. They’re a waste of development time and are useless.
I literally say this as someone that has contributed to Firefox.
I have little against the local translation feature, especially givent the fact it isn’t bundled but a seperate download.
That being said, there are higher priorities, like better history and bookmarks, because the current sidebars are 20+ years old and it shows. Chrome has had it figured out for 10 years straight now.
The right way for AI features would be to partner with outside orgs and projects. As you said, they’re a waste of development time. And given how much low hanging fruit there is, there’s no justification for following AI trends instead of doing basic UX hygiene.