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One feature we’re starting with next quarter is AI-generated alt-text for images inserted into PDFs, which makes it more accessible to visually impaired users and people with learning disabilities
Is there a community where we can post whatever the popular opinion happens to be at the time? A sister community for !unpopularopinion@lemmy.world seems to be increasingly necessary.
MS Word has this feature and it’s absolutely terrible. 508-compliant alt-text, which were required to include in documents we publish at work, require a couple of sentences of explanation. Word uses like 3 words to describe an image.
A well-implemented language model could be a huge QOL improvement. The fact that 90% of AI implementations are half-assed ChatGPT frontends does not reflect the utility of the models themselves; it only reflects the lack of vision and haste to ship of most companies.
Arc Browser has some interesting AI features, but since they’re shipping everything to OpenAI for processing, it’s a non-starter for me. It also means the developers’ interests are not aligned with my own, since they are paying by the token for API access. Mozilla is going to run local LLMs, so everything will remain private, and limited only by my own hardware and my own configuration choices. I’m down with that.
I’d love to see Firefox auto-fetch results from web searches and summarize them for me, bypassing clickbait, filler, etc. You’ve probably seen AI summary bots here on Lemmy, and I find them very helpful at cutting the crap and giving me exactly what I want, which is information in text form. That’s something that’s harder and harder to get from web sites nowadays. Never see a recipe writer’s life story again!
Not AI! Please!
I swear, tomorrow I am finding AI in the goddamn toilet paper!
Yeah that terrible AI:
But but, AI bad!
Is there a community where we can post whatever the popular opinion happens to be at the time? A sister community for !unpopularopinion@lemmy.world seems to be increasingly necessary.
I hate to break it to you, but right now, AI is being pushed by Tesla, Microsoft, Apple, Google. Pretty much every major megacorporation.
The environmental impacts are staggeringly horrible.
But sure, AI good.
That’s pretty damn awesome
MS Word has this feature and it’s absolutely terrible. 508-compliant alt-text, which were required to include in documents we publish at work, require a couple of sentences of explanation. Word uses like 3 words to describe an image.
There is a slight contextual difference: in word you’re creating content and you should take the time to write alt text.
For this proposed Mozilla feature, it is trying to make up for people who haven’t written any alt text and already published their documents.
It’s just another feature that needs to be turned off on first start.
Why?
I prefer my browser just displaying websites and not doing random AI stuff or telemetry.
Visually impaired people prefer being able to use the browser and actually be able to understand the content of websites.
These features are local, private and improve accessibility, so I really don’t see any similarities with telemetry which can be turned off anyway.
It’s good for them, I guess.
Yes, telemetry can be turned of with
user.jssettings. I hope this can also be turned off that way.A well-implemented language model could be a huge QOL improvement. The fact that 90% of AI implementations are half-assed ChatGPT frontends does not reflect the utility of the models themselves; it only reflects the lack of vision and haste to ship of most companies.
Arc Browser has some interesting AI features, but since they’re shipping everything to OpenAI for processing, it’s a non-starter for me. It also means the developers’ interests are not aligned with my own, since they are paying by the token for API access. Mozilla is going to run local LLMs, so everything will remain private, and limited only by my own hardware and my own configuration choices. I’m down with that.
I’d love to see Firefox auto-fetch results from web searches and summarize them for me, bypassing clickbait, filler, etc. You’ve probably seen AI summary bots here on Lemmy, and I find them very helpful at cutting the crap and giving me exactly what I want, which is information in text form. That’s something that’s harder and harder to get from web sites nowadays. Never see a recipe writer’s life story again!
Don’t be ridiculous…. Now an AI powered bidet that really gets the shit off your butthole…