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crote | 5 days ago

And that's in turn because product managers keep calling everything "AI" and shoving the bad kind in every feature they possibly can.

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godelski|5 days ago

What is the bad kind that Firefox is shoving in?

Do they have any good kind?

What's the ratio?

mort96|5 days ago

Why is there a chat bot sidebar???

And even if there aren't that many bad AI features now, they've signalled their intent for Firefox to become an "AI browser". I don't know what they mean by that, but I know I don't want it. The chat bot sidebar is surely just the beginning.

It's primarily in response to the backlash from people who don't want an "AI browser" that they're promising a kill switch. But I don't want to use an "AI browser with AI features disabled", I just wanna use a regular web browser...