I hear people saying “Mozilla isn’t trying to push AI on users”, well here is an example of it.

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    9 hours ago

    Why would someone want a page summarized?

    If it’s short, just read it.

    If it’s long, the LLM will probably fuck it up.

    They’re really going after the illiterate and lazy segment.

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      8 hours ago

      We can actually say pretty concretely that a long page cannot be summed up by the LLM, because that is a limitation Mozilla themselves disclosed!

      Up to 3,000 words with iPhone 15 Pro or later… Up to 5,000 words with other devices

      If only there were ways to skim or scan text to get an idea of what it says.

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        Dude, do you realize how fucking long 5000 words is? That’s approximately 11 pages with 12-point font single-spaced – consisting, to emphasize, of just words. That would represent an overwhelming majority of pages that people are reading and is well beyond a “long page”. If this is your attempt to make fun of the feature’s limitations, you’ve actually instead surprised me that they allow this much.

        Mind as well that your cited limitation is more to do with on-board processing power than “the LLM will probably fuck it up”. Which are connected, sure – more sophisticated, resource-intensive models tend to do better. But that’s not really apples-to-apples with what they were talking about.

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      8 hours ago

      I don’t know if this particular sidebar handles it, but AI summaries of youtube videos save a huge amount of time. Especially when I’m only interested in one specific bit that’s buried somewhere in an hour of other stuff.

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        7 hours ago

        It doesn’t, and YouTube already has an AI-free way of finding stuff in videos. It’s called the transcript.

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          7 hours ago

          The transcript is what the AI would be basing its summary off of.

          Many of those transcripts are, themselves, generated by AI.

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            6 hours ago

            Facedeer, don’t be a troll. You know that when people criticize AI, they aren’t talking about speech-to-text .

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        7 hours ago

        I can see the appeal but I wouldn’t trust it.

        Related thought: I despise how much stuff is made into video when a few paragraphs, maybe with a gif, would do just fine.