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[-] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago

I don't want that. I want full control and absolute privacy. I do not want your AI reading my emails. Look at that summary, it's as long as the whole email, and you're not going to be able to trust that it picked up on the most important part of the email. This is not efficiency, this is novelty.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

Pretty sure the email is longer than is shown, hence why the last sentence is cut off

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Here's the summary of their example article (or perhaps the page?):

This email expresses a sarcastic and exaggerated perspective on the advancements and implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The author begins by expressing excitement about the technological marvels of AI, but then proceeds to poke fun at the complexity and convoluted nature of AI, its ability to predict our actions, and the replacement of human interaction with AI chatbots. The author also mocks the idea of AI-generated content and its ability to replicate human creativity, and the potential ethical concerns of relying on AI for decision-making. The email concludes with a sarcastic call to embrace the "glory" of AI and its potential to take over human autonomy. The tone of the email is light-hearted and humorous, but it also raises valid concerns about the role and impact of AI on our lives.

This isn't really a summary, there's some interpretation going on as well. I don't want AI to do any form of interpretation, but if it does so, it should be as metadata below the actual summary.

And honestly, I almost never get an email that I actually want to summarize. Most of them I can either completely ignore (corporate BS), or they're short and to the point. So it's weird to me that email is the first thing they mention.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

Then don't install the extension?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

So do you actually draw the line at Mozilla never building stuff like this into their browser, or is that a line you would be willing to cross too?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Well, you can just... not install the extension then?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I won't. But my concern is that Mozilla is heading in the wrong direction lately, and I have used Firefox for a very long time.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

We always told them we want things to be optional, and now this is an extension so I dunno. Seems they're listening?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Yes, I'm glad this BS is an extension. I'm not happy that they're spending time on this vs projects people actually seem to want. AI appeared nowhere on the top-10 survey results, yet this is what they come up with. I just hope they didn't spend a ton of time on it.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago
[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I won't trust the AI Mozilla uses until they show us the source data. Not the source code that consumes a massive binary blob; the stuff that generated the binary blob they are using.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Not far enough. I won't trust it until I can build it myself and self-host it. Then if they provide reproducible builds and hashes of the currently running build, I can decide whether it's better to use their hosted version or my own.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

I'd want both.

My biggest gripe is that when companies provide "source code," it often is technically reproducible and "works," but only with a gigabytes-large binary blob that cannot be debugged and will not be sourced.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

But but but … they said…

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