Technology

I used to enjoy AI a lot, and I still think the technology is really cool, but lately I'm beginning to despise it. It spreads and nestles itself into every corner of our life, and it rots whatever it touches, be it the humans that rely on it or the projects in which it's used. I see so many open source projects that are tainted with it, it's almost impossible to avoid it. It's sad. The generations that will grow up with AI will be fucked.

I use Duck.AI a lot, and it says its privacy oriented and doesnt save your queries. Is Firefox doing anything similar, or is it all monetized data?

bUt ThErE's A kiLL SwItCh!

Seeing AI invade open source is sad. AI slop contributions. AI integration that no one asked for.

For now Firefox derivatives are fine (I use LibreWolf), but many of those derivatives don't work on macOS because it "fails to verify that this executable is actually executable" (what does that actually mean?????????).

I had hopes for Ladybird Browser but now it's being vibe coded (rewritten in rust by ai for no reason whatsoever), and it's not ready yet anyway. Now I'm hopeful for Servo engine. It's in development but at some point it will be ready, and it bans slop contributions.

You should see how AI is being deployed in warfare. Plausible deniability is about to go through the roof.

Back in the day, you get out jail free card was on a scale of "the devil made me do it" to "I was following orders", now we get "It was AI"

The geo-exfiltration of personal information needs to be in great big banner lights; and not just because you're outside America, or China, or wherever the bot happens to be where Firefox is exfitrating your history as queries.

Exfil is bad; geo-exfiltration is next-level bad.

Most pointed questions you type will start a Google search1. This loads a regular search results page, and sees Firefox’s AI chatbot shift to a sidebar on the right. The AI reads the top results (including any AI overview), and produces a response based on them.

AI reads AI reading AI reading AI reading AI reading...

10 delete AI

20 goto line 10

run

Ai in browsers is stupid

Do yourself a favour and use LibreWolf or WaterFox instead.

So sad for Firefox. I try to keep using since it’s the only solution free of Chromium, but I guess chromium will control everything only Safari will not be chromium.