I wouldn't mind a good novel application of machine learning that does something that can benefit me.
But a dedicated chatbot button to open a website in a sidebar, or, worse, spending resources on proxying requests to OpenAI/Anthropic/whoever, or even worse, running yet-another-GPU-cluster... all that doesn't make any sense to me (firefox "AI" integration is the first option). It's not something I actively want, and not even something that feels useful - it's rather a net negative as it distracts developer resources from doing something meaningful.
If Mozilla wants to tick some "AI" upper management bingo checkbox, at least please try doing something actually useful with it.
I wouldn't mind a good novel application of machine learning that does something that can benefit me.
But a dedicated chatbot button to open a website in a sidebar, or, worse, spending resources on proxying requests to OpenAI/Anthropic/whoever, or even worse, running yet-another-GPU-cluster... all that doesn't make any sense to me (firefox "AI" integration is the first option). It's not something I actively want, and not even something that feels useful - it's rather a net negative as it distracts developer resources from doing something meaningful.
If Mozilla wants to tick some "AI" upper management bingo checkbox, at least please try doing something actually useful with it.