• tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip
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    12 hours ago

    When I turned it off the translation thingy went away, so I’m not sure if it was AI all along and they were lying about it or not. Just as well, there’s an extension that works fine and it doesn’t reload the page every time I toggled it like the built in one did.

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      11 hours ago

      The translation is technically AI, but it’s a distant cousin to the LLMs and image generators that have repulsed so many people. (The term AI is such a broad and vague umbrella that Netflix recommendations count as AI.) And, even more notably, this is before Mozilla started marketing things as AI.

      It was also a joint non-profit venture with a university, rather than today’s weird gimmicks or for-profit partnerships.