this post was submitted on 23 May 2024
703 points (98.8% liked)

Technology

59605 readers
3434 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots


founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] grue@lemmy.world 25 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I mean, as long as you can tell it's not opening up any network connections (e.g. by not giving the process network permission), it's fine.

'Course, being built into a web browser might not make that easy...

[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 6 points 6 months ago

Sums up my thoughts nicely. I am by no means able to make sense of the inner workings of an llm anyway, even if I can look at its code. At best i would be able to learn how to tweak its results to my needs or maybe provide it with additional datasets over time.

I simply trust that an open source model that is able to run offline, and doesnt call home somewhere with telemetry, has been vetted for trustworthiness by far more qualified people than me.

I'm not interested in AI, but if it's not touching the network, I might leave it enabled. We'll see.

All I want from Firefox is to keep up on web standards, implement security features, and improve performance. I don't particularly care about most of the rest of the browser features they throw in.