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[-] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 156 points 3 months ago

Why connect to the Internet with it then. The browser could just make everything up on the fly.

Got questions about a medication?

Maybe you want to check up on some disease symptoms?

AI can make something that sounds vaguely plausible.

[-] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 80 points 3 months ago

Why connect to the Internet with it then

To check if your subscription to their models is still valid of course

[-] kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 3 months ago

And send back telemetry and training data.

[-] aesthelete@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

AKA all of your personal data, you know, just in case we need it

[-] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 22 points 3 months ago

Browsing the internet will be like playing AI Quake II, you'll think you are in this alternate universe.

[-] vane@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Why use head if you can use ChatGPT. Remove head and start working smarter.

[-] vivendi@programming.dev 6 points 3 months ago

I don't fucking understand why Lemmy is permanently stuck in 2023 with AI

Using RAG (retrieval augmented generation) results in much lower, almost negligible confabulation rates

[-] Dumhuvud@programming.dev 4 points 3 months ago

How do Sam ~~Conman's~~ Altman's boots taste?

[-] vivendi@programming.dev 7 points 3 months ago

Oh fucking -please-

This place is genuinely more insufferable than Reddit. That is actually an achievement

Whatever dude, writhe in your own ignorance

[-] Dumhuvud@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago

Making an assumption regarding the entirety of a social network with at least tens of thousands of users based on a single inflammatory comment (mind you, a comment that has more downvotes than upvotes)? That's a bit of a small sample to extrapolate from, don't you think? You should've probably asked ChatGPT if that's the right call.

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[-] thiseggowaffles@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 months ago

Generally speaking, people used ChatGPT back when it first came out, had a bad experience and never fucked with it again, so their understanding of it is frozen in time. Most people know next to nothing about the current state of AI unless you're a researcher or enthusiast. They're completely unprepared for the actual state of the industry.

[-] kami@lemmy.dbzer0.com 115 points 3 months ago

Sounds like the best thing that could happen to Firefox

[-] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 61 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Unfortunately, Mozilla is investing a ton of money into AI, too.

[-] exu@feditown.com 28 points 3 months ago

Some of their I initiatives are good, like the built-in local translation tool we now have.

[-] Engywuck@lemm.ee 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Mozilla will loose Google's deal money.

[-] vivendi@programming.dev 16 points 3 months ago

Mozilla works mainly on LOCAL AI not this corporate trash like closedAI

[-] Bazimon@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

Look into Waterfox instead.

[-] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 3 points 3 months ago

That really doesn't solve the problem, like every other Firefox fork they're completely dependent on Firefox. You can't just make a new webbrowser just like that, and while third party developers can certainly disable some anti-features, there are limits to that and they can definitely not do the basic work that the Firefox devs do (or could do, if Mozilla had different priorities).

[-] grue@lemmy.world 49 points 3 months ago

Mozilla spinning off control of its development to an independent group the way they did with Thunderbird would be the best thing that could happen to Firefox.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Thunderbird :

Operated by MZLA Technologies Corporation, a subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation, Thunderbird is an independent, community-driven project that is managed and overseen by the Thunderbird Council, which is elected by the Thunderbird community.

Chrome self-destructing because of stupidity like AI would only ever manage to be a close second, at best.

[-] compostgoblin@slrpnk.net 6 points 3 months ago

Has Mozilla indicated any openness to taking that approach with Firefox?

[-] peterg75@discuss.online 2 points 3 months ago
[-] cley_faye@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Firefox, the software mainly driven by Mozilla, which is heavily investing in AI and ads ventures? That Firefox?

But, maybe "it will be different this time", I guess.

[-] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 65 points 3 months ago

OpenAI is like a zombie stumbling around trying to infect everything. We shove it away because it’s fuckin’ gross and we want nothing to do with it, while the bosses that reanimated it are like “well fuck, we made this thing, we have to use it for something.”

[-] 11111one11111@lemmy.world 33 points 3 months ago

How the fuck would this be more cost effective than them making their own chrome based browser and not be a demonstration of their over inflated operating costs and company valuation?

If you are paying for a service that is charging you enough to allow them to buy the most widly used browser from a company whose business model is to monopolize data, then maybe you're paying them a titbit more than what the service they're providing is worth.

[-] MysticKetchup@lemmy.world 62 points 3 months ago

I'm sure they're less interested about buying Chrome than they are about buying Chrome's market share

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago
[-] Zorsith 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The sheer market share that forces websites develop for chrome for maximum visibility, to force websites to allow their content to be scraped to be usable by the average user.

[-] neclimdul@lemmy.world 32 points 3 months ago

Great! Now not only can chrome eat all my system memory, it can use all my GPU memory at the same time! It's genius!

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Likely it'll use the cloud for processing, you'll just get really hard-to-opt-out AI features, like "prompt by default" and "AI autocomplete", which you can only "snooze" as they'll automatically be turned back on the moment there's a "great new feature", like putting a filter on by default on image generators to fool the eye that it's made by real artists.

[-] Zier@fedia.io 25 points 3 months ago

How to kill Chrome faster, make it AI only. LOL!!!

[-] cupcakezealot 25 points 3 months ago

don't they already have brave for that?

[-] madis@lemm.ee 6 points 3 months ago
[-] cupcakezealot 1 points 3 months ago
[-] madis@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago

And is OpenAI somehow related to crypto?

[-] cupcakezealot 1 points 3 months ago

crypto and ai are two sides of the same garbage

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

They're really not. They're completely unrelated.

[-] Fenrir@lemmings.world 20 points 3 months ago

Validating my years old decision to use Firefox

[-] scarabic@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

When a company considers buying Chrome because it could help them extend the reach of their product, they are fucking drunk and need to go home. This would be like buying the state of Nevada so you could put up billboards all over Las Vegas.

[-] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 13 points 3 months ago

WTF? Just download it for free.

[-] FrameXX@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 3 months ago

Chrome or Chromium project?

[-] msage@programming.dev 13 points 3 months ago

Isn't Google going to do it themselves?

[-] uawarebrah@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 months ago

This can't happen. Not because I think google is doing a wonderful job, but it's got serious market share now. Basically a monopoly. It needs to leave the hands of for profit companies and be transitioned to a foundation.

[-] rippersnapper@lemm.ee 6 points 3 months ago

I’ve said this before and will say it again. The only tech companies that should be allowed to buy Chrome are Canonical and its equivalents.

[-] simsalabim@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Isn't Canonical up to some crummy schemes, too?

[-] crimsonpoodle@pawb.social 3 points 3 months ago

Sure but not by at least an order of magnitude

[-] shiroininja@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Good thing I’ve never used the garbage that is chrome or chatgpt 👍

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