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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/technology
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New Mozilla AI project. Put "trust" and "privacy" in the title and subtile but doesn't support locally hosted model.

Exists as an add-on today. Model is Mistral 7B hosted by Mozilla in GCP. Claims won't save data long term. Promises won't use personal information to train models and not share queries with Mistral or any other services.

Am I going to use it? No. Not without local model supported.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (10 children)

We discussed this briefly a few days ago. No one understands why Mozilla likes to waste their time and money on random sideprojects that nobody likes or asked for... Instead of something useful, or the things lots of people ask them to do.

And summarization is among the worst things you can do with LLMs. I'm not against AI, but they're really not good at this specific thing. I'm not sure if people will use it anyways, but I think this project is a waste of resources.

[–] essteeyou 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I feel like Mozilla are in a difficult position. They're reliant on Google to exist, it seems. When they try to do something else to make an alternate revenue stream everyone says to stick to the thing they do that nobody in the world pays for.

[–] vatlark 1 points 1 month ago

I recently started donating to Mozilla. They have been delivering a good product for a very long time, the least I can do is pay for it.

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