You mean AI should be rotten to the core with advertisement, surveillance trackers and taken over by Big Data monopolies mostly headquartered in a fascist country?
Yeah, that's pretty much where it's headed.
this post was submitted on 18 Aug 2026
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That's a very dark take, but not wrong, unfortunately.
Sadly that is AI of the present. A few of the leaders have already mentioned and have implemented "suggested results" in their responses, and surveillance is well.... I assume we all know that was baked in from the start.
How have these sycophants been allowed to seep into every position of decision making or influence.
And that's why the Mozilla organization is in decline, users beg for them to stop mucking with AI and make Firefox the unquestionably best browser in any platform, they answer with "OK, here's more AI"
The AI in Firefox is local-only -- no data centers, no privacy leaks, no supporting big evil. And you can opt out .
"Our FOSS Torment Nexus, which was created by evil from evil, that requires more evil to keep it updated, that fundamentally supports the evil campaign of surveillance subjugation by corrupt tech CEOs by it's very existence as an excuse they can use to point out that not every evil machine is evil, is entirely good and ethical because it's only local!" is not the brag you think it is
If its such a compelling feature set then opt-in shouldn't be an issue.
Yes, self-hosting and small-group AI hosting needs to be legal, accessible, and feasible.
Despite the pessimistic (and largely technically incorrect) takes here, the internet is actually an incredible feat of human collaboration; the most distributed, interconnected, democratized, and resilient communication system ever built.
You'd hope that Lemmy users, being people who've mostly fled the big social media sites with at very least some marginal technical cost to themselves, wouldn't be pulling a millennial version of the boomer "AOL == The Internet" thing by treating FAANG's sites as the internet, but alas.
I mean as a browser im moving away from firefox but I may end up using it as a standalone local llm. I would still like a gpl os flavor built around locall llm. something that is very limited on installation but with options to expand capability. Essentially something like a start trek computer.
Mozilla's leadership is still not worthy of those millions.
I 100% agree. The thing that makes AI evil is who owns it.
Hope that guy dies.
Oh hell no, why?
"organizations need alternatives to proprietary AI systems to gain greater control over their data and infrastructure"