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Mozilla’s Betrayal of Open Source: Google’s Gemini AI is Overwriting Volunteer Work on Support Mozilla (www.quippd.com)

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TL;DR: Mozilla’s translation bot on Support Mozilla (that is currently overwriting user contributions is based on the closed source, copyright infringing LLM, Google Gemini. This is in spite of Mozilla claiming that they are at the forefront of open source AI, and belies their exhortations to choose to build open source AI and data sets. Although Mozilla has experience in attracting open contributions for data sets in projects like Common Voice, Mozilla is using a closed data set to overwrite open contributions. Since (paid) Gemini queries do not train the model, Mozillians can expect to correct errors every time the bot automatically updates an article.

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[–] nil@piefed.ca 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Mozilla is over.

[–] dogs0n@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The money from Google was surely what killed their browser. I'm not saying there was a behind the scenes deal. They just got lazy and spent Google's money is stupid ways instead of improving their product so that they could gain a real userbase.

Imagine if they spent that money towards just the browser (not possible, but imagine anyways), we could be in a very different place where Chrome doesn't have 99% (or whatever it is) market share.

Firefox is a good browser, but where could they have been today if it was prioritised over paying the CEO millions for nothing? They have recently been sorta catching up, i've seen a lot of updates that actually include features I use, but I think it's too late.

Time for one of the new built from the ground up browsers to shine when complete. I still stand by Firefox and recommend it, but as soon as their is an open competitor that is production ready, I'm outta here.

They have undoubtly done amazing things for the web, but their idiocy is astounding sometimes and I don't wanna stay on a sinking ship. I'd rather use a new browser that helps keep the web secure, safe a pleasant for us all without annoyances or dumb beurocracy.

[–] watson@lemmy.world 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The rot has set in. There’s no getting it out, now.

[–] tux0r@feddit.org 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The rot has set in in 2017.

[–] watson@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You may have misunderstood me: when I said “the rot has set in” I was referring to the end point. “The rot has set“ would refer to the beginning point.

It is a confusing way of speaking (which I only employed for style), and our collective confusion is a great example of why we don’t speak this way anymore. Lol.

[–] tux0r@feddit.org 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I see. Not a native speaker here, but working on it! Sorry.

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago

Native speaker here, and that's the first time I've ever heard such a distinction. Nothing on Google seems to back it up either, so take the asshole's explanation with a grain of salt.