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Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs (www.xda-developers.com)
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[–] hector@lemmy.today 3 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

Wait so where is this AI on my firefox? I haven't seen anything, is it running by default, and what's it doing?

How do I shut it down then? Everyone hates AI so I don't understand what mozilla had to gain by bringing in AI, or what they had it doing in the first place?

[–] Feyd@programming.dev 6 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)
  1. Local translation which only happens when you trigger it I believe (and is cool)
  2. Smart tab groups which i don't think anyone cares about and only happens when you ask it to
  3. Link previews which I think happens on link hover which is undesirable if you don't want to accidentally do it (edit: see correction in reply)
  4. A sidebar chatbot integration which you'd have to use on purpose
  5. Someone said perplexity in search engine options which you'd have to do on purpose
[–] Anafabula@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 20 hours ago

Link previews happen if you hold click on a link or choose it in the right click menu. By default it shows pretty much just the title of the page and a banner asking you to enable an ai summaries.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 2 points 21 hours ago

Everyone hates AI so I don't understand what mozilla had to gain by bringing in AI

Same as everyone else

[–] Prox@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago

FTA

If you don't want to see AI on Firefox anymore, all you have to do is click on Settings > AI Controls. You'll then see a very bold and prominent option called 'Block AI Enhancements.' Hit that, and every AI tool gets disabled.