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I strongly disagree with the proposed AI-centric direction for Firefox. I already disable any current AI features in this browser and disagree with them being there at all. I am firmly anti-AI in the form/use that is most prevalent. I don't want an AI chatbot or AI summaries. AI is not a replacement for human thought. It cannot perceive. It cannot understand. It cannot communicate. Even if it produces a convincing enough mimicry of those things to convince some people that it is capable of doing those things. It's like that IBM training slide from 1979 that says "A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision." Firefox's blog entry about these proposed updates is full of nothing but glittering generalities, just buzz-phrases like "you're in control" and "a better browser" and "trusted companion." AI is not a trusted companion. AI is hyper-advanced autocorrect. And with AI's harshness on the environment (requires astronomical and unsustainable amounts of water) and on the browser itself (slows it down considerably and makes it more vulnerable to security breaches like prompt injection attacks), I just don't think "everybody else is doing AI" is a valid reason to override the main reason most Firefox users use it (because of its lack of AI features and focus on privacy). I'm a long-time user of Firefox and I have really enjoyed it, but one of the biggest issues I have had with it in the last few years is disabling all the AI garbage features that keep getting sneaked in. If AI use or AI-driven features become a substantial part of Firefox, I won't be using it anymore.

I have recently been watching a gentleman rebuild computers and downloaded the videos so I can go over them and learn more about this topic. I recently went to watch an episode and it played in German. I started playing some of them one by one and they are all in different languages. German, English, Spanish, French, Arabic, etc... I have not changed any settings and have no idea what is going on. Has anyone heard of this or knows how to change it back? It plays the same on VLC or MPC-HC. If it was one language or on one player I would think it to be a setting.

Windows 10 Firefox 146.0.1 (64-bit) Downloader 9.5.0.0 Beta Mozilla en-us Companion App v2.0.19

VLC 3.0.20 Ventari MPC-HC (64-bit) 2.5.6

Please don't put AI into firefox. I moved to this browser to get away from the google privacy violations. I don't want to have to move to a different browser again.

Holy hell, this is an awful idea. Firefox has been like, the most widely-supported and accessible competitor to Chrome that hasn't started pawning off data willy-nilly, and now your investor-pickled brain is deciding to add the Unethical Slop Generator built in? Fuck off. Pull anything, and you're losing customers.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/leadership/mozillas-next-chapter-anthony-enzor-demeo-new-ceo/

I've been using Firefox for over a decade, but I'm switching to a different platform now. Firefox's CEO, Anthony Enzor-DeMeo, appears to approve of garbage-quality AI summaries and a general lack of a thought process from the users themselves. Sure, he mentions that AI should be a choice, which includes being able to turn it off, but guess what: if I want a choice of AI, then I'd rather choose to turn it on in the first place. I'm not tolerating slop on my browser. I uninstalled it from Windows, and I will sure as hell will rid of it here, too.

Read the room. The general public hasn't been supporting Copilot, so god knows why they'd happily embrace this garbage infesting their Internet browsers, as well. Good bye, and good riddance.

I refuse, for a considerable number of reasons. And I'm concerned and dismayed that Mozilla's new leadership is intent on doing so.

I've been an avid user of Mozilla products for years... but posting this is the last time I will be using Firefox before uninstalling it to swap to Vivaldi, whose CEO Jon von Tetzchner has publicly stated their commitment to, as they put it, "humans over hype".

I am utterly fed up with having unwanted AI "features" crammed unavoidably into every corner of my online experience. I'm deeply disappointed in Mozilla for embracing and enabling the ongoing disintegration of our shared internet.

Not sure where to even send this so I'm just putting it here. If you make Firefox an "AI-browser", I and many others are going to delete. This is ridiculous. This is the one browser that's supposed to be safe from that kind of thing. Get rid of it. We can get AI:s literally anywhere else and we don't want it.

Thank you.

I was upset to learn that Firefox is moving toward the implementation of more AI features. I use Firefox on mobile and desktop, as well as on my personal devices and on my work devices for web development. I chose Firefox over its competitors because of its user-first policies and dedication to an open and free internet - this move toward AI goes directly against this. I hope this message will help to convince the decision makers at Mozilla that their users DON'T want AI and specifically choose them as one of the only non-AI browsers out there!

I've just heard that the new Mozilla CEO plans to move Firefox towards being an "A.I Browser" over the course of the next three years. I am incredibly upset and disappointed by this.

Firefox been my go-to browser for its lack of built-in bloatware and spyware; for a little over a decade I have relied on this browser and felt secure in its future up until now. I am incredibly frustrated by this direction. At this point, I might as well go back to Google Chrome. I am frustrated, disappointed, and angry about this doubling down.

A.I is bloatware. Anything it can do, I can (and would rather) do myself with minimal effort. It offers no features that I find valuable, and should Firefox move forward with this, not only will I no longer be recommending this browser to my friends and family, I will leave it myself and encourage my friends and family to do the same.

This is a disturbing promise from the CEO, and I hope for the sake of the browser that it is left unfulfilled.

I am someone who uses firefox for its simplicity and its privacy, away from all the bloat and walls that chromium or other browsers supplies. Adding AI to the browser will harm mine and others experiences, as well as cause less powerful machines to struggle to run. Please do not add AI