• adarza@lemmy.ca
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    • no account or login required.
    • it’s an addon (and one you have to go get), not baked-in.
    • limited to queries about content you’re currently looking at.
      (it’s not a general ‘search’ or queries engine)
    • llm is hosted by mozilla, not a third party.
    • session histories are not retained or shared, not even with mistral (it’s their model).
    • user interactions are not used to train.
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      Thanks for the summary. So it still sends the data to a server, even if it’s Mozillas. Then I still can’t use it for work, because the data is private and they wouldn’t appreciate me sending their data toozilla.

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        According to Microsoft, you can safely send your work related stuff to Copilot. Besides, most companies already use a lot of their software and cloud services, so LLM queries don’t really add very much. If you happen to be working for one of those companies, MS probably already knows what you do for a living, hosts your meeting notes, knows your calendar etc.

        If you’re working for Purism, RedHat or some other company like that, you might want to host your own LLM instead.

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      That’s really cool to see. A trusted hosted open source model is really missing in the ecosystem to me. I really like the idea of web centric integration too.

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    I want to point out that by downvoting this, you’re reducing the visibility of the post for other people, therefore making less people informed of the change.

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      My thoughts exactly.

      However, I always found upvotes and downvotes a bit confusing because upvote is almost synonymous with “like” and downvote with “don’t like”. With upvote, that assumption isn’t that problematic but with downvote it is, like in this case where post will have less chance of being seen.

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    I will try it. People are too negative about mozilla. They are a hundred times better than Google and we need them to survive.

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      It’s an add-on, not something baked-in the browser. It’s not on your property at the first place, unless you choose to install it 🙂

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        For now, but one day Firefox will try sneak him into my house and hide him in a cupboard untill squatters rights kick in.

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          Even they choose to do so in future, usually there always is a about:config entry to disable it.

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    I’m starting to warm up to this stuff. There is a future rapidly hurtling towards us where, if you take the time to read and think for yourself, you will become a genius. It was happening already in some stem fields where people used GUI tools without ever reading what the buttons did, and if you took the time to read the manuals and the underlying methods, you could become vastly more competent than anybody else in your team. This “AI” bullshit is just extending the lazy culture out to every piece of information on the web, where average Joe is already unable to concentrate beyond 140 characters. Those that take the time to learn the fundamentals and read deeply will have vastly superior knowledge of any subject, while the majority will be spoon fed superficial summaries filled with errors and no way of realising.

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      That was written by an AI, wasn’t it?
      If anything brings me around on AI, it’ll be the “kids these days and their dang quill and parchment, the chisel and stone tablet was good enough for me so it should be good enough for everyone” argument.

  • Possibly linux@lemmy.zip
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    This is why I don’t use direct Firefox. I use soft forks like Librewolf, Mull and now Fennec