TL;DR: Mozilla is killing localization on Support Mozilla, overwriting articles written by humans with machine generated translations. Although Mozilla knows that their AI doesn’t localize or adhere to style guides, Mozilla is going live with it anyway. I thank locale leaders and localizers for their tireless efforts. Locale leaders seem to be obviated by AI, and Mozilla has nothing to say about it.

TL;DR: Mozilla is killing localization on Support Mozilla, overwriting articles written by humans with machine generated translations. Although Mozilla knows that their AI doesn’t localize or adhere to style guides, Mozilla is going live with it anyway. I thank locale leaders and localizers for their tireless efforts. Locale leaders seem to be obviated by AI, and Mozilla has nothing to say about it.

  • Lemminary@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    54 minutes ago

    The AI bullshit features as you call them are completely non invasive,

    And yet I had to turn them off in about:config, not even in the regular settings. Why are the settings hidden? Why can’t I turn them on if I want them? Why isn’t opt-in and transparency their standard approach with such a controversial feature? Those are some serious dark patterns for a company advertising itself as user-friendly, that they had to backtrack on when they saw the community uproar.

    Now it’s happening again, but on the developer side.

    Stop the bullshitting and complaining over things are completely irrelevant

    Irrelevant? I can’t afford AI threads running in the background, hogging my memory and processing power away from my productivity apps for whatever bullshit they decide to add that barely relates to what I use a browser for. I don’t live in a “first-world country” with standard hardware. That’s the whole reason I use Firefox, for the respect for their users that I have grown accustomed to, which they now seem to want to ignore. It’s a huge violation of trust that you’re downplaying when they want to add things first and apologize later.

    The bottom line is that their approach has shifted recently, and I have every right to criticize them for it when they say one thing and do another.

    • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      19 minutes ago

      standard approach with such a controversial feature

      The “controversial” features:

      1. Alt-text generation: Creates descriptions for images, which is particularly useful for making PDFs more accessible to screen readers.
      2. On-device translation: Translates web pages without sending your content to external servers, protecting your privacy.
      3. Smart tab groups: Analyzes open tabs to suggest names and group similar ones together to help with organization.
      4. Link previews: Generates key points from articles to give you a quick summary.

      These are all very modest in requirements even on an old phone. And the use is actually zero unless you use the function.
      AFAIK all further AI functionalities are all optional.

      Number one is particularly useful for blind people, a group that absolutely needs screen readers to work well.

      So again stop the bullshitting, just because you are bullshitting yourself too doesn’t make it better.
      Either that or mention just one single specific function you “needed” to disable and why.
      IMO your misunderstood whining is annoying.

      Personally I use the translation function a lot, it is both very handy and very good, and I have used it for both Russian and Ukrainian and Chinese, and it works surprisingly well.
      But maybe you speak every language on the planet, or find it more convenient to use an online translator, leaving unnecessary extra digital trails and requiring extra bandwidth?
      How you don’t find that feature useful is beyond me???