No AI in the browser

[fl0id]

Please do not add AI in the browser as a core feature. If you want to experiment with various ways to use AI, please do it as an optional feature in the form of an addon or similar. Many people use FFX because it is not Edge or Chrome, and that necessitates sth like AI being optional.

[raster]

Agreed. I do not want to see any AI in Mozilla products. If it does get added I want a way to completely disable it.

[tdietterich]

The promise of AI-based assistants for the web is that they can understand enough of your individual context to make decisions on your behalf. But this is a huge privacy challenge. Stated another way, the AI system must surveil you long enough to understand your preferences and your current state (e.g., what you already own vs. what you are shopping for; what you already know vs. what you are trying to discover). I don't want that personal information in the cloud; I will only use it if it runs in a secure environment on my personal machine. This is why any AI capabilities must be optional and run fully locally.

[RattyTatTat]

If someone wants to use "Ai" then they should just switch to Chrome, Brave, Edge, or almost every other browser on earth.

[uneventfullogs]

Agreed. Mozilla needs to understand people go to Firefox because it ISN'T chrome.

[JRV]

I joined just so I could add my voice to the group saying no to default AI tools!

And in case this is useful to anyone who sometimes uses google, if you prepend -u to your search terms, you can bypass the automatic gen-AI response.

For example:  -u how to fold a fitted sheet

[igorlogius]

AI integration as an addon sounds like a good compromise for people who want it and those who dont.

[BelFox]

+1 for separating AI from the Firefox core by offering AI-related products as FF add-ons. Then it is a more deliberate choice to install AI utilities and non-lovers or non-users aren't bothered with the AI hyperbole.

I'm not against AI but I also think usage shouldn't be stimulated unnecessarily in Firefox (simple queries should be made in search engines, not in LLM-trained chatbots, to reduce environmental impact). Best of both worlds, no?

[d3xbot]

Yes! I regularly handle protected data in intranet-based webapps. I use Firefox because I value privacy and keeping my job. If Mozilla integrates AI into Firefox, I can't be sure that the AI won't leak this protected data, even accidentally.