Share your feedback on the AI services experiment in Nightly

[asafko]

Hi folks, 

In the next few days, we will start the Nightly experiment which provides easy access to AI services from the sidebar. This functionality is entirely optional, and it’s there to see if it’s a helpful addition to Firefox. It is not built into any core functionality and needs to be turned on by you to see it. 

If you want to try the experiment, activate it via Nightly Settings > Firefox Labs (please see full instructions here). 

We’d love to hear your feedback once you try out the feature, and we’re open to all your ideas and thoughts, whether it’s small tweaks to the current experience or big, creative suggestions that could boost your productivity and make accessing your favorite tools and services in Firefox even easier.

Thanks so much for helping us improve Firefox!

[Skellingtor]

My feedback is very clear: NO

I hope you take it into account

[SquishySimon]

Hello, I love using Firefox because its basically the best browser out there for security.

I hate generative AI because its theft.

I would like to keep using Firefox without worrying about contributing to the tech bubble spread of generative AI use, which is already being dropped by companies that can't afford the actual cost of running it. Once prices catch up, it's all over.

Don't be like Google and Microsoft and other big tech garbage. Keep being Firefox: a haven against the most invasive influences of the modern internet. Dipping your toes into AI is signaling that your niche as a safer option in the browser market is coming to an end. I do not want to quit using Firefox, but I will if this feature becomes a permanent thing.

[boonando]

No ❤️ please understand that people use firefox to avoid these kinds of things, especially privacy breaches and AI bull**bleep**. You're just going to make people find another alternative that doesn't have AI. There are many browsers out there with these features, and the fact Mozilla doesn't have it is why I, and a lot of other people, use it. There is no way for chat bots to be actually private, and you're shooting yourselves on the foot trying to add this feature.

[ogavs]

My feedback is: No. Thank you. Firefox not having these features (optional or not) is why I use it.

[duelistkingdom]

I literally use Firefox to avoid AI. This would be the easiest way to make me switch again. Don't **bleep**in do this.

[jerod23]

I am sick and tired of A.I. being placed in every freaking thing.  We don't need the Internet of $h!t on our desktops.  Please remove it entirely from the regular version of Firefox and make it an extension for people who actually want this garbage.  Or, at the very least, provide an extension that safely removes it.  Not just disables it, REMOVES IT.

[TheVampireAutho]

Please don't put AI in Firefox, I use Firefox to get away from AI. It is a waste of water and resources. If you do end up putting this unnecessary feature in, at least make it easy to turn off, I despise this simplification and regurgitation of information. Let me search for it. That's what I use a search engine for.

[amairylle]

God, I’m so tired of companies adding ai into services that are perfectly fine as-is. The Ai never works well, is unethical, and overtaxes the environment. I don’t want it! 

[ShadowDragon]

Please don't, there's enough AI in other browsers now, it would be nice to have at least one that doesn't have any so you don't have to worry about opting out of it or locking your browser version. Firefox has been the most reliable browser and I've trusted it since it came out in 2004 and my family's computer started using it (Explorer was a nightmare to use with all the sidebar space being taken up by random things), and even now it's one of the only browsers users can trust to not harvest their data and sell it off to the highest bidder.

[amysnotdeadyet]

please do not add the environment-killing mediocrity machine to firefox

[cyaneous227]

No! i will not use firefox anymore if it includes AI

[DDD___]

Keep AI services away from me with a 50 foot pole, please. If I ever see even the slightest encroachment of that stuff, optional or not, on my sidebar menu, I'll end up on the news.

[gendernull]

Please dont start integrating AI bull**bleep** into firefox. i adore mozilla, im a diehard firefox user on all devices and use mozilla VPN as well becauee of the security features, and because its the last browser to not be complete **bleep**. integrating AI is selling out to the venture capitalists' promise that AI is the Next Big Thing. AI is in a boom thats desperately looking for more and more buy in for a product that isnt doing half of what they swear we "will be using it for in 5-10 years time", while it gets worse and worse, as it has already chewed up and spat out pretty much all the input it could get its hands on legally or otherwise, and has started inbreeding. its not just this selling out though, it's the hypocrisy of letting something built entirely off of discarding the privacy concerns that mozilla claims to care about. this doesnt even touch the environmental concerns. the whole idea's antithetical to what i would expect from mozilla, and similar integrations have made me leave other products. don't go down this path, please

[oakiia]

Pls NO

[yukimori]

ABSOLUTELY NOT.

[oakiia]

Pls no 😭

[BiancaCevenini]

Please do NOT add AI to firefox

[vasquini]

PLEASE DON'T INCORPORATE AI INTO FIREFOX. It clogs the search function with useless, often incorrect "answers" and unnecessary use of AI is an unneeded strain in the environment.

[EShaker]

I don't want any AI features in my browser whatsoever. Not even as an option; too many features that degrade my current user experience in applications started as "optional".

[laluje]

No thank you, generative AI is such a waste of resources, the water needed to cool it and electricity needed to power it are just not worth it. The current US power grid probably isn’t up to that kind of load. Plus, text generation isn’t much better than predictive text. There are no sources, no thought behind it, and it can’t correctly tell me how many x’s are in “Kenya” or “connective.” At this moment generative AI is just not worth the bother, despite every tech company trying to thrust it in consumer’s faces. If someone really wants links to AI services on their web browser leave it as an extension or bookmark they can add themselves.

[BalooUriza]

Where's the option to disable and remove completely any "AI"  component?  That needs to be the biggest, most prominent feature of any AI component.

[imathers]

Feedback: Please don't do this.

[IvyStryker]

I dont want "AI" in my browser. I dont want "AI" in the world. Just make a good normal browser that we can use without some resource eating nonsense trying to guess at what I'm doing. This is not a feature that should exist. 

[Marzi]

No, please don't. Internet right now feels like a trash heap on fire with how much AI makes it worse. Before AI it was just a regular trash heap.

Speaking slightly more seriously, there is more than enough tools that can summarize Wikipedia articles, adding yet another AI chat is not helpful or useful. It's just following a hype for hype's sake.

[Skulldog]

No one wants this, stop trying to slide this energy sucking waste of computer cycles OUT.

[Torbjorn]

Looks horrible. What's powering it? Something transparent about its 100% kosher training data with no intellectual property theft in it?

[NoxEther]

The feature is useless; for those who want to use AI, it doesn't save them that much time or effort. As for those who do not want AI in our browser, it feels like a betrayal.

Firefox has built its brand on being the privacy-focused, human-first browser. Implementing AI goes against that branding and will turn people away. I've been using Firefox for two whole decades, and I am completely ready to let go of the convenience, the add-ons, and all the bells and whistles, to adopt one of the clunkier FOSS alternatives.

I will say it once again. The issues people have with AI-- the environmental, ethical costs, on top of the absolute mediocrity of its output-- go against the core values of Firefox. By adopting AI, by maintaining this features after all the previous angry and upset replies to this thread, you are telling us: we are not what we told us you were; we would rather hop on the AI bubble than provide you with the service you've come here for.

I am not hoping much from this, given how previous replies has been answered; clearly you're asking on feedback for a feature you intend to implement no matter what. Well! That is despicable, and I hope whoever decided this gets to reflect, reconsider, and steer their life on a more honest path.

[211rB]

^^^^

this, this is the one. couldn't have put it better myself.

[wyvernsflight]

Please do not add any AI features.

[suissujin]

Please dont

If someone wants those features, add ons will be able to cover that. To make it a core feature would be devestationg for the future trust we can put into firefox and its safety claims.

If it has to be implemented no matter what, at least make it opt in.

[nineadrianna]

I do not find 99% of AI features to be useful, and this is no exception. AI has simply become a buzzword that most companies feel the need to integrate immediately for fear of irrelevance. I was hoping Mozilla would know better than to bend to the trend, and I hope it wises up to the fact that people prefer Firefox BECAUSE it's different from other browsers, not in spite of that fact.

[idkman5425243]

Are you gonna explain what "ai" you are going to be even testing because that's just a buzzword. is it an llm thats gonna hallucinate and tell people poisonous mushrooms are edible? is it a predictive algorithm?

[onyxior]

No ai, p l e a s e

[EShaker]

I think it's telling, by the way, how there has been a fairly overwhelming "No" in reply to this over three months, and those answers - which you asked for! - are being ignored. While Mozilla employees are in the replies implying ableism, ignorance, or asking "well gosh have you tried it?" Like not wanting LLM trash integrated into the browser is just some knee jerk reaction, not a reasoned, thought through decision arrived at by intelligent adults. We understand what we are saying to you, and what we are saying no to.

What was the purpose of asking for feedback on the first place?

[AlexisSophia]

No to AI in Firefox! I've been a loyal user since Firefox was first implemented, and this change will make me switch to an alternative—even one I otherwise like much less! Please don't do this 😞

[pringus]

While the option is nice for the people who wanted it, I think it would be better to have it as an optional feature that has to be installed, like Facebook Container, Firefox Colour, Relay, etc., not installed by default.

[isopodshuffle]

No one wants this. 

[SLW]

Please don't do this.  I'll absolutely revoke my monthly donation to Mozilla if I'm gonna be dealing with trying to get around that AI crap.

[RusMcLaughlin]

Hey there! Loyal Firefox user for decades now.

It's good that this is an optional thing. Because if and when you add AI services to your sidebar as a permanent feature, I will delete Firefox off all my platforms and migrate to a different browser. 

I do not need another worthless AI spraying disinformation across my screen, which it has likely stolen from other people (and possibly me as well) and repackaged as Accurate with zero ability to recognize that people on the Internet talk a lot of **bleep**. And the fact that Mozilla has bought into these counterproductive, possibly illegal practices (along with their immense environmental deficits) honestly has me already researching other browsers with better priorities.

AI does have important use cases -- security comes to mind -- but this? No. Absolutely not.

[friendlyfrank]

Please do not bring in AI to firefox. It's horribly wasteful to the environment, often inaccurate to outright false in the information it presents, and just not a useful tool for what I want. My heart sank in my chest when firefox pushed an AI 'check reviews' tool while I was shopping! AI is part of why I swapped TO firefox in the first place.