• Openopenopenopen@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Can I ask areal question? I’m not trying to be a dick or smart ass, I legit don’t get this. What is bullshit here? I read the article and it seems like a useful feature to me.

    “this week, we will launch an opt-in experiment”

    “those who have opted-in will have the option to access their preferred AI service from the Firefox sidebar”

    Is this opt in only feature really terrible? Because as a user of ai, not switching tabs sounds like a nice new feature to me.

    • dinckel@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      I strongly believe that generative AI is catastrophically misused in the vast majority of its applications, so in my eyes, adding gpt-based AI to the browser is largely a wasted

      • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        5 months ago

        I highly doubt they have one team that switches between experiments and bug fixes, never doing two things at once. Not to mention that something ultimately being ripped out isn’t necessarily wasted effort. They could likely easily pivot virtually anything they put into this specific experiment into any number of other uses.