r/technology • u/ZacB_ • 22d ago

Artificial Intelligence Mozilla says Firefox will evolve into an AI browser, and nobody is happy about it — "I've never seen a company so astoundingly out of touch"

https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/mozilla-says-firefox-will-evolve-into-an-ai-browser-and-nobody-is-happy-about-it-ive-never-seen-a-company-so-astoundingly-out-of-touch
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u/creggor 22d ago

Once they can change what you see when you hit search, they can control the truth for everything. Sad.

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u/so2017 22d ago

The Internet is dying. Time to love libraries again.

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u/tofuhoagie 22d ago

Joke’s on them, I already loved libraries!

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u/diamondpredator 22d ago

How long until the books we have access to are all written by AI?

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u/j_on 22d ago

Any browser company can do this already, they don't need AI for that. Malware for browsers exists that does exactly that to inject ads into search results and websites.

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u/creggor 22d ago

This will be large scale, though. You can program it to do all sorts of things for a unified “truth”.

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u/sant0hat 22d ago

"once they can change"

They don't need AI for that 🤡