• clb92@feddit.dk
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    The moment Mozilla bundles an AI assistant with Firefox is the moment I’m done with the internet.

    We don’t need a new separate useless AI assistant in every single browser, please.

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      Same. I just saw that Opera is really pushing the built in ai stuff too now. Brave makes sense to me because it’s already based around a crypto ponzi and packed to the gills with “web 3” bloat, they just jump on every techbro bandwagon that comes out but yeah if Firefox ever does something like this I give up

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    What use are they to me? I never needed it before, why would I need it now? I can only see AI in browsers being used to learn from and monetize my activity.

    (For real though, how could AI be used to enhance browsing?)

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      For real though, how could AI be used to enhance browsing?

      Well, in the 90-00s search engines were taught to be used with keywords. Then Google started to make it work with sentences and speech as well. Now AI is supposedly* answering complex questions and getting organized data for you.

      • as long as the data is factual, which depends on your question, language model and availability of answers

      I personally think it would be good if people had access to AI the same way search engines exist, but most AIs are still locked down to an account or payment, mainly for accountability and marketability purposes I’d say.

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        Well better search results are always good.

        But other than that, I guess I mean I still dont know what other reason I’d need AI for while browsing.

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      I never needed it before

      Before the iPhone people didn’t know they needed it, similar with Ford model T, someone asked Henry Ford if he had done some market research before Model T, he said people would want a stronger horse instead of a car

      But yeah, no idea how AI would enhance web browsing

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        how AI would enhance web browsing

        I’m not a fan of calling these LLM things “AI”, but there are tons of things where this could make sense to help in decision-making. Example scenarios:

        • I want to plan a vacation but I don’t have a exact plan or date. Instead of aimless browsing around or giving my data to a bunch of travel sites that will bombard me with “deals”, I can set up an “AI agent” that will check the current prices, weather conditions and etc to find spontaneous trips.
        • I want to make a “DIY” project and some of the components are fixed by the design, but others can vary. An AI can give me suggestions for variations and find me the best prices for the materials required.
        • If I am looking at a product on Amazon, an AI can summarize the reviews in a way that I care about.
        • I can find a recipe that a like and ask an AI to make a vegan/gluten-free/kosher version of it

        etc, etc, etc…

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        Well thats a very good point!

        But when you’re marketing a new feature most companies will explain the benefits and uses of a thing. For example if Ford was explaining how a car is superior hed provably give some concrete examples.

        With AI infused tech products most companies seem content to just say “its now better because it has AI!!” - but without the selling points.

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    Srsly, the amount of shit brave has put on its web browser has become too big.

    Someone should fork them and remove all of their BS.

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      it got to a point i was disabling a shit ton of flags to just have the browser. then i just said fuck it and installed librewolf.

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      Same reason I dropped Firefox for Librewolf. I just want a browser! I don’t want an integrated shopping cart. I don’t want bespoke tracking. I don’t want to be bombarded by trashy celebrity listicles.

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    And so begins the phase where we start using AI to avoid having to deal with all the crappy UIs out there directly.

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      I actually wouldn’t mind that if AI halucinated a little less but at that point you don’t need the crappy standard that is the web ether!