People don’t want Firefox translation because they “want AI,” though. They want it because being able to translate web pages is a useful feature. I think it’s quite telling that nowhere in the linked article does the author actually defend Firefox’s new “Window AI” feature as useful. Instead, the only argument he can make for it is that AI is popular.
More like “Sure, but plenty of your non-techy friends and family do.” Otherwise the article wouldn’t have said that Mozilla needs to add a single toggle to disable all AI features to Firefox.
“I don’t want AI”
“Actually you do though, but if you don’t then you’re an out of touch pretentious old weirdo and should just shut the fuck up”
Firefox translation is AI. Should they remove that?
People don’t want Firefox translation because they “want AI,” though. They want it because being able to translate web pages is a useful feature. I think it’s quite telling that nowhere in the linked article does the author actually defend Firefox’s new “Window AI” feature as useful. Instead, the only argument he can make for it is that AI is popular.
If it’s less accurate than previously used methods of translations? Yes.
If it consumes more resources than previously used methods of translations? Yes.
There were no previous methods of translation.
More like “Sure, but plenty of your non-techy friends and family do.” Otherwise the article wouldn’t have said that Mozilla needs to add a single toggle to disable all AI features to Firefox.
Don’t expect ex-reddit-users to read the actual article…