More news sites need to follow through on AI companies failing to meet their own tepid promises to “add guardrails” (the most meaningless phrase in existence) when they continue to allow avoidable harm

This article is about how AI exacerbates those tendencies. And since there are so few ways to accurately measure the functionality of AI in general, those self-segments are a significant portion of AI’s value proposition.

Nvidia has aggressively rebutted suggestions of any similarity [to failed telecom Lucent], saying in a leaked recent memo that it “does not rely on vendor financing arrangements to grow revenue”.

…Saying in a memo that was suspiciously, conveniently leaked and just so happens to claim everything is fine

[citation needed]

This sounds like an opinion from the LinkedIn echo chamber.

To be fair, the stuff in that article all looks really good. Especially if Mozilla is rolling out a backup feature, which is something that some users have said is sorely needed.

That’s… Not really a switch. If somebody has to go to a secret place, get past a warning sign, and type in a half dozen secret commands… it sounds more like an espionage movie than the flipping of a switch.

And people have already complained that some of those flags don’t affect newer ones, which Mozilla keeps adding. We might as well say Microsoft has a setting to turn off telemetry, never mind it’s also hidden and it also keeps getting switched back on.

First, citation needed on these people who want AI. People on LinkedIn will hate to hear this, but I don’t think the average user does.

Second, I don’t understand your point. Do you actually believe the average user would feel compelled to switch to Firefox? Why? Instead, Mozilla is taking aim at their current users.

They say a switch will be built in. There is no switch yet. Which means the deluge of little popups about AI tab grouping and the “look at Perplexity” messages are not going away until these changes are actually released.

As we enter a new era shaped by AI and renewed debates over consumer agency…

Hey Mozilla: Despite your belief, AI is not inevitable for every product under the sun.

Microsoft could even push its AI summaries as a RAM-friendly version of visiting website pages.

This definitely sounds like what Mozilla wants to do, but who will care? People who want AI in the browser already have Edge and browsers developed by AI companies. Mozilla is just arriving late to the party, the same way they did with VR.

“He” this time. The CEO keeps changing, but their mission keeps getting worse

Personally, I find all this talk of “choice” from Mozilla to be a red herring. What exactly does it mean?

When Mozilla introduced telemetry, they had to give us a reason. They had to promise it was good because it would help them develop their browser. But with talk of “choice,” Mozilla simply implies AI is good without explaining how.

This appears to be a bad article. See: https://piefed.social/post/1573197

Or add it to the list of onboarding steps at the very beginning. Otherwise, it’s either on by default or off by default, and our (or Mozilla’s) definition of “easy” is entirely open to interpretation.

Koi, an AI company with ties to industry titans like OpenAI, complains extensions scrape your AI data: “How dare you swipe when I have rightfully stolen?”

Companies like OpenAI won’t even hardcode a shutdown command for conversations that go into suicide methods… They just talk about “guardrails” all day, which is apparently the AI equivalent of “thoughts and prayers”

I counted one more, and there’s a couple others I take umbrage at.

AI-only features:

• AI Chatbots
• Perplexity
• Shake to Summarize (iOS)

Monopoly-only features:

• Visual Search (a Google version of an extension with better options)

AI-“enhanced” features:

• Link previews
• Tab groups

“It sounds like you want low-end devices to be turned into thin clients for cloud-based operating systems. Do I have that right?”

Just one glance at that website and you can see it has been created for cryptocurrency enthusiasts. Questions and answers are measured in their value by how much money speculators have thrown at them.

You might as well ask questions on the Polymarket…