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Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox (arstechnica.com)
submitted 9 months ago by einat2346@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yet...

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Why would Mozilla make AI so they could steal personal information when they already own the browser that gives the information to the AI

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

The AI is claimed to be local.. Did you know that even local AIs are able to contact the internet again? So without knowing a local LLM system might execute some HTTPS calls for you, without knowing.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Except its open source. So it would last all of 4 seconds before being called out. Those HTTPS calls are a separate service the LLM will access not a part of the LLM itself.

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago

Cant they do the same with firefox?