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Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome (arstechnica.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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If you can, use Firefox.

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[–] TheGrandNagus 33 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I don't think we should equate Firefox's AI plans with other ones.

Firefox's AI will be trained entirely locally with data that you choose to give it, and won't send information back to Firefox.

By the sounds of it it won't be a chatbot either, but rather an aid for finding more sources, pointing out fake reviews, assisting in (offline, local!) translation, etc.

My two main issues with AI are unethically sourced training data, and hoovering up personal information when you use it. Neither are a problem for Mozilla's AI plans. This is how AI should be done.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Well this is the thing here. We're in an era of time in technology where we DON'T want people having as much of our data. Whether it's for good or bad use, we just don't want it. How hard is that for these companies to comprehend?

The internet was fine without this sort of thing. We were fine without AI. Why complicate it at all?