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Mozilla warns of AI, privacy violations, loss of consent, and eco-unfriendly tech fads (foundation.mozilla.org)

submitted 4 months ago by LWD@lemm.ee to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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Now that Google and Microsoft each consume more power than some fairly big countries, maybe it's time for 2024 Mozilla to take heed of 2021 Mozilla's warnings.

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[–] LWD@lemm.ee 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If you look at the Mozilla community forums before they announced the AI feature, nobody was asking for it.

In fact, Reddit posts from earlier months leaned in the opposite direction, with people thankful that Mozilla had not injected unethical AI into Firefox.

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 months ago

This feature (that is again, opt-in) is not for you or me, or anyone who knows that mozilla connect exists, its for timmy, who is does not know anything about tech but likes using chatbots