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Regarding AI, there are only options on what would be great with AI. There simply is no option "No, I don't f-ing want AI" in a Mozilla product.
I want a Browser and an EMail program. Not something that tries to do thinking for me.
Amen. Basically this survey reads to me as "we decided to focus on AI and we need some pretty graphs to show it's an awesome idea - please tell us why you think AI is the best thing ever!"
That's exactly what I took from it as well. It's a survey designed to get the answers they want, not the actual feedback they're pretending to ask for.
There are a couple 'Other - Please Specify' fields I definitely filled out with 'Do not do AI'.
I really like their local translation models. Simply saying "no AI!" feels very luddite to me for such a broad category.
I have no problem with things like Mozilla Common Voice. I have a big problem with integrating machine-learning stuff into Firefox by default.
I remember back when ~~Phoenix~~ ~~Firebird~~ Firefox first came out, the whole fucking point of it was to be a fast, bare-bones browser, and that people could pick and choose what extra features they wanted by installing extensions. IMO that's the way it still ought to be.
Ironically SeaMonkey, the continuation of Mozilla Suite, seems lighter than Firefox.
It’s about priorities. Fix the ducking browser first, get market share, THEN you fuck around with random shit.
The luddites were not opposed to technology
Regarding AI, I filled it in as following:
That's pretty much what I wrote in the comment box. The options for the multiple choice questions don't really acknowledge that as a preference people might have.
Dude thats not realistic at all. The industry is moving that way and all companies have to follow , if companies dont do they will eventually die , just look at Yahoo , AOL , Phillips , etc barely surviving and nothing what they used to be. Why? Mostly because they were complacent and stay conservative not innovating fast enough.
I don't think that's necessarily true. What I do think is true is that there's a chance some AI thing will be a trillion dollar investment, and the most motivating thing for VCs is fear of missing out on a giant score.
A nonprofit open source profit ought to have different motivations though.