I begin to believe that we are here in our own bubble. Most lemmy users are against AI implementation. One can see tons of news articles that state that AI implementation failed in many businesses. According to many here, they either expect AI bubble to burst soon or believe that it will do so in near future. Literally everyone would say that putting AI in firefox is a terrible idea that will stray more users off the browser.

If they fear losing user base by not implementing AI, I doubt they are deaf to all the tiny community they have. That is 100% not the “fear” of missing out. That is very likely money grab that was paid by major AI company(ies). They cant be so much blind that they would destroy their community just to not to miss out on AI craze (that also likely already had passed).

This is money. But money hunger will ruin Mozilla

Oh, really? Then it’s my queue!

Just went quickly though their site and saw only big donations. Should’ve check deeper.

Minimum donation to Ladybird is 1k 😭

I really fail to se what Firefox is trying to do.

There is a sizeable amount of people who wish to stay off chromium and avoid AI entirely. Not like FF has a major % of userbase in the internet. They could’ve cater to those people by evading AI entirely and probably would gain much bigger user base by doing that. Spread of word and all. Why would they go the opposite way and stray even more people away from their already tiny core user amount? Doesn’t make sense to me. Did they pair with OpenAI or any other AI company who paid them monnies to be brainless idiots?

Any articles can be a click bait. The reality is what matters.

I didnt turn on AI in Firefox myself. It just appeared there after an update and was turned on. It is not opt in but an opt out.