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Meet Orbit, Mozilla's AI Assistant Extension for Firefox (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The built-in AI staff,you referred to, is nothing but an accelerator to integrate with 3rd-party or self-hosted LLMs. It's quite similar to choosing a search engine in settings. This feature itself is lightweight and can be disabled in settings if not required.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The built-in AI staff [sic]... is... an accelerator to integrate with 3rd-party or self-hosted LLMs.

Users are only shown Big Tech "3rd-party" options. Mozilla made this choice intentionally.

Since Mozilla is clearly capable of developing an add-on that is not forcefully installed on user's devices, they should remove the built-in thing that endorses the highly unethical chatbots run by Google, OpenAI, etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Users are only shown Big Tech “3rd-party” options. Mozilla made this choice intentionally.

Well, how many users really have LLM local-hosted?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

So we agree Mozilla only chose to promote Big Tech options.