• Nightwatch Admin
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    25 days ago

    Not AI! Please!
    I swear, tomorrow I am finding AI in the goddamn toilet paper!

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      25 days ago

      Yeah that terrible AI:

      One feature we’re starting with next quarter is AI-generated alt-text for images inserted into PDFs, which makes it more accessible to visually impaired users and people with learning disabilities

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            21 days ago

            I hate to break it to you, but right now, AI is being pushed by Tesla, Microsoft, Apple, Google. Pretty much every major megacorporation.

            The environmental impacts are staggeringly horrible.

            But sure, AI good.

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        24 days ago

        MS Word has this feature and it’s absolutely terrible. 508-compliant alt-text, which were required to include in documents we publish at work, require a couple of sentences of explanation. Word uses like 3 words to describe an image.

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          24 days ago

          There is a slight contextual difference: in word you’re creating content and you should take the time to write alt text.

          For this proposed Mozilla feature, it is trying to make up for people who haven’t written any alt text and already published their documents.

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                  24 days ago

                  Visually impaired people prefer being able to use the browser and actually be able to understand the content of websites.

                  These features are local, private and improve accessibility, so I really don’t see any similarities with telemetry which can be turned off anyway.

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                    24 days ago

                    It’s good for them, I guess.

                    Yes, telemetry can be turned of with user.js settings. I hope this can also be turned off that way.

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      24 days ago

      A well-implemented language model could be a huge QOL improvement. The fact that 90% of AI implementations are half-assed ChatGPT frontends does not reflect the utility of the models themselves; it only reflects the lack of vision and haste to ship of most companies.

      Arc Browser has some interesting AI features, but since they’re shipping everything to OpenAI for processing, it’s a non-starter for me. It also means the developers’ interests are not aligned with my own, since they are paying by the token for API access. Mozilla is going to run local LLMs, so everything will remain private, and limited only by my own hardware and my own configuration choices. I’m down with that.

      I’d love to see Firefox auto-fetch results from web searches and summarize them for me, bypassing clickbait, filler, etc. You’ve probably seen AI summary bots here on Lemmy, and I find them very helpful at cutting the crap and giving me exactly what I want, which is information in text form. That’s something that’s harder and harder to get from web sites nowadays. Never see a recipe writer’s life story again!

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      24 days ago

      Don’t be ridiculous…. Now an AI powered bidet that really gets the shit off your butthole…