I can’t see how AI can’t be done in a privacy-respecting way [edit: note the double negative there]. The problem that worries me is performance. I have used texto-to-speech AI and it absolutely destroys my poor processors. I really hope there’s an efficient way of adding alt text, or of turning the feature off for users who don’t need it.
If it runs locally then no data ever leaves your system, so privacy would be respected. There are tons of good local-only LLMs out there right now.
As far as performance goes, current x86 CPUs are awful, but stuff coming out from ARM and likely from Intel/AMD in the future will be much better at running this stuff.
Native Tab Grouping
I’m old enough to remember previous native tab grouping.
We don’t need AI in a browser.
Companies need to stop shoving AI into everything
Did you read more than just the three words naming the feature? Their use case is actually smart, and could potentially help users a lot.
The recent addition of local in-browser website translation is an awesome feature I’ve missed for many years. The only alternatives I’ve found previously were either paid or Google Translate plugins. This translation feature is an example of an AI feature they’ve added.
If it’s using a local model like it says I think this is fine:
We’re looking at how we can use local, on-device AI models – i.e., more private – to enhance your browsing experience further. One feature we’re starting with next quarter is AI-generated alt-text for images inserted into PDFs, which makes it more accessible to visually impaired users and people with learning disabilities.
I’m happy about 2/3 of these things
They shouldn’t have announced until it was ready for release.
I just bought my first ultrawide monitor and was just getting into testing the available options for vertical tabs, but I don’t like having them duplicated, so I was just thinking that this should be a native feature.
And now I can’t wait.
Ugh. I hate tabs on mobile. Had to trash my homepage settings with chrome to stop it loading a new tab everytime i opened the app. Firefox is bloated enough w/o the tab bullshit
Don’t use it then
There are no tabs on mobile anyways. Only an openable list of currently open websites.
Not AI! Please!
I swear, tomorrow I am finding AI in the goddamn toilet paper!deleted by creator
That’s pretty damn awesome
But but, AI bad!
Is there a community where we can post whatever the popular opinion happens to be at the time? A sister community for !unpopularopinion@lemmy.world seems to be increasingly necessary.
I hate to break it to you, but right now, AI is being pushed by Tesla, Microsoft, Apple, Google. Pretty much every major megacorporation.
The environmental impacts are staggeringly horrible.
But sure, AI good.
MS Word has this feature and it’s absolutely terrible. 508-compliant alt-text, which were required to include in documents we publish at work, require a couple of sentences of explanation. Word uses like 3 words to describe an image.
A well-implemented language model could be a huge QOL improvement. The fact that 90% of AI implementations are half-assed ChatGPT frontends does not reflect the utility of the models themselves; it only reflects the lack of vision and haste to ship of most companies.
Arc Browser has some interesting AI features, but since they’re shipping everything to OpenAI for processing, it’s a non-starter for me. It also means the developers’ interests are not aligned with my own, since they are paying by the token for API access. Mozilla is going to run local LLMs, so everything will remain private, and limited only by my own hardware and my own configuration choices. I’m down with that.
I’d love to see Firefox auto-fetch results from web searches and summarize them for me, bypassing clickbait, filler, etc. You’ve probably seen AI summary bots here on Lemmy, and I find them very helpful at cutting the crap and giving me exactly what I want, which is information in text form. That’s something that’s harder and harder to get from web sites nowadays. Never see a recipe writer’s life story again!
Don’t be ridiculous…. Now an AI powered bidet that really gets the shit off your butthole…
