And their telemetry metrics will tell them people overwhelmingly keep the switch on.
Because the vast majority don't read release notes these days?
I have enough trouble keeping with the IRL release notes of how my democracy is falling apart. Forger checking them on my browser.
Because the people who turn off the AI are the same people who turn off telemetry
The only useful thing ive found for AI is its ability to read text from an image. Which is good for taking serial numbers from a photo, and copying from an app that otherwise doesnt allow copying on phone. Thats it. A tool.
OCR did that for 20 years .
Nothing these slop generators do is novel or new.
I remember using Google translate that was doing that live on the phone camera and translating the text at the same time 15 years ago.
How else do people think we were translating all that hentai before the slop generators took off
OCR kinda sucked lmao
that function is just reskinned OCR, though
which I guess you could consider as AI and that it is a similar training data structure? not my area lol
I do also think that AI has some use as a search engine. I haven't used it much for this purpose at all, but a while back there was a specific type of engineering analysis I needed to do, and I couldn't remember the exact terms or topics to look up. chat GPT got me into the right area so I could look at the appropriate resources. in that specific scenario, it was better than a standard search engine
Of course once I found the materials I was looking for, I stopped using the chat bot and you know use those materials
Yeah, ocr is a type of AI. The big advantage of modern techniques is that it can factor in context a bit better. It's the same principle but a different mechanism for how you know a red hexagon with S__P on it says stop, even if the sign is dented, a letter fully fell off, it's raining and dark.
It also means it's sometimes wildly inaccurate, like in cases where it's just so much more likely that it said something else. Like how on a bright sunny day, with perfect clarity, and a crisp new sign with extra good visuals, you'll hit the breaks for a sign that's a red hexagon that says §¥¢¶. It's just very unlikely that that would coincidentally be on a red hexagon near the road, so it's more likely you saw wrong and it was actually the normal thing.
I also find LLMs decent for translating text between languages, though for serious use it still requires human review
Browsers don't need LLMs
Every single facet of my life doesn’t need LLMs. This statement is without exception.
So while previously the translation feature was supported by an extension, now it has to be enabled through ai.
Hate it.
The only people that are into LLMs are scientist (which is reasonable) and tech bros.
The later just think it's useful while for 99% of people there just isn't a usecase.
I guess I'm in both groups. I love LLMs, but then again I have academic degree in AI.
Though I must also admit - look how they massacred my boy. LLMs could be used in games to make every NPC a talkative character or work as a customer support during off-hours of small businesses... instead they are used to generate advertisements faster.
Having tried a game with AI NPCs, they're fucking awful. I don't want to sit there and have a conversation with irrelevant individuals. Give me that concise "here's your mission and reward."
An AI companion who can converse, comment and learn may be cool, but I definitely don't want anything like what I've seen.
Im super happy to see so many upvotes for this most excellent browser!
Remember when they had a "kill switch" for javascript?
It's available as an extension: https://webextension.org/listing/javascript-toggler.html
Yeah. Used to be native. Like the slop kill switch currently is. Then won't be.
For years and years I've been using this extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/yesscript2/
"Kill switch" – oh the drama. Let's call every simple toggle 'kill switch' from now on.
“Firefox is including an AI murder switch so that heartless users can take the life of our helpful little robot guy who just wants to see you happy. We added it because not everybody is a good person.” -Mozilla CEO.
THERE'S A PHYSICAL KILL SWITCH FOR TYPING IN ALL CAPS ON MY KEYBOARD, BUT I HAVEN'T ACTIVATED IT YET.
i have a violently execute switch in my room (it toggles the lamp on or off)
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