Now that Mozilla Firefox is adding AI directly to its browser, are there any browsers without AI or LLM? I don't want anything to do with the current LLM and AI, which I strongly believe stealing from artists, and all AI companies are freeloaders. It is a bit disappointing to see open-source software adopting something like this. https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-news/ai-services-on-firefox/
@nixCraft for what it’s worth - the AI included directly into Firefox is not an LLM. It’s an alt text generator. Firefox also tells us the exact datasets it used for training, which does not include stolen artist data. (From https://hacks.mozilla.org/2024/05/experimenting-with-local-alt-text-generation-in-firefox-nightly/ )
@jenzi @hexorg @nixCraft That article seems to say this alt-text generation uses GPT-2, a LLM, as a component.
I appreciate, though, that they are trying to do this in an ethical way. It preserves privacy, uses a disclosed data set, and is aimed at a pro-social purpose that doesn't really displace paid human labor.
