I keep seeing very worrying discourse about Mozilla and AI, and while I agree that Mozilla shouldn't be investing in AI, there's a vast gulf between "Mozilla is making Firefox an ENTIRELY AI BROWSER" (misinformation) and "Mozilla is going to add some easily disabled AI tools to Firefox" (reality)
the absolute vitriol with which I have seen people react to these headlines is bizarre; I hate AI as much as the next artist, but the sheer number of people declaring Mozilla to be the enemy of the people is wild
worse still, the advocacy in these threads for users to jump to other browsers like Brave (the cryptobro browser with an AI AGENT ALREADY IN IT) or even back to Chrome (we will extractively collect every token of data about your existence we physically can to show you advertising that's impossible to avoid while monopolising control of the web, its content and discoverability via our browser engine and then funnel this data into AI-driven sales tools which will cartel pricing to maximally extract money from you while selling this data and services to governments to help them oppress you, fuck your privacy, fuck your consent and fuck you) is actually terrifying
should Mozilla invest in AI? no, sure I agree, their leadership is all over the place, treating them with healthy scepticism and pointing this out to them at every turn should be the policy moving forwards
should you go back to Chrome or Chrome-derivative browsers because of this? FUCK NO