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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 6 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (2 children)

I just opened setting on a firefox tab on my computer, clicked on the three lines in the upper right, and the settings. There is not AI controls in there, and searching settings didn't pull up any ai thing.

This is like when I tried to take gemini off of my phone, it's hidden, instructions online didn't work, the links didn't exist on my phone. It's still on there, but hasn't turned itself on multiple times when I somehow swiped or hit something as it did a year ago or so a bunch.

It should be opt in not work to opt out and we hid the way to do that.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 7 points 18 hours ago

Maybe the article was written by AI that hallucinated the setting.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I can vouch for the page being there on my Firefox 148 on the desktop.

[–] hector@lemmy.today 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Huh, maybe I need to wait for firefox to update or for me to restart the computer if they just did it. I'm also running an older version of windows I think, I don't even know which one actually but they tried to upgrade me for free and I told them no a couple of years back.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 3 points 18 hours ago

I think they just did it. Menu > Help > About will tell you if you're on 148 and probably help you update if you want.

I was also presented with a giant "you can opt out of AI" tab after I updated.