“zzt how dare you accuse Mozilla employees of suffering from very obvious LLM psychosis”

zzt@mas.to

@tante @fasterandworse they do have a garbage product specifically for that: https://newproducts.mozilla.org/product/solo/

State of Mozilla feels like that plus another couple layers of slop from LLMs running rampant over the output, plus some animation-obsessed solo dev implementing the worst bits, like the intro and the, uhh, fake hacking screen that pops up if you intentionally fail the fake captcha 3 times

I’m attaching a photo of that last bit but it really does have to be seen in motion for full garbage

urlyman@mastodon.social

@zzt yeah that fake captcha is a pile of piss https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/115969754752982010

deborahh@cosocial.ca

@semievolved @c_9 @zzt just a quick skim told me it was AI-written, so I stopped. Waste of my time. #sad

lordcaramac@discordian.social

@zzt I use Mozilla because it's not based on Chrome/Chromium code. And it still supports all the add-ons that Chrome banished, like download managers, right-click re-enablers, uBO...

lordcaramac@discordian.social

@zzt I do absolutely want AI to be out of the hands of tech capital and in the hands of everyone. However, I don't want AI to be part of my browser. I want AI to be something separate, and entirely different application that I can start when I want to use it and that I can close when I'm done. I don't want an "assistant", I don't want an "agent", I can write bash scripts for most of that and Python for the more complicated stuff. I want specific AI tools that do only one thing, and that thing as efficiently as possible, and I want them to run only when called for.

GenAI plugins for Gimp or Krita are nice, as long as the diffusion models run locally, even if they take a while to render.
But why would I want AI in my browser? The web is a dangerous place full of phishing and XSS and things like that, I don't need to add prompt injection vulnerabilities.

shadowfals@toot.cat

@zzt oh, wow.

I went in cautious because of the warnings. But even with the luck of avoiding nerve damage from a flashing screen, that was worse than I was prepared for. It was like a team in a bleached office tried to reproduce the creative energy of a bunch of indie ziners working independently in a themed jam.

Mozilla put that bland and soulless mess of fakery out to the public on purpose. Wow.

shadowfals@toot.cat

@memoria @zzt

This is seriously making me reconsider every em dash in my current short story draft.

WTF, Mozilla.

rq@river.group.lt

@zzt, bwahaha, "Doing for AI what we did for the web". What good exactly have Mozilla done for the web recently?
@dcoderlt

landa@graz.social

@zzt
I was tempted to make a joke about that other thing with a double-bottom, the Titanic.
I won’t because „what if something shivs the ship from stem to midships?“ actually was an edge case outside the design parameters and not an LLM-extruded //TODO

Well, maybe someone will make a heartrending film about Mozilla 85 years later…
@promovicz

paul@notnull.space

@zzt the amount of em dashes in that article is incredible.
Sure, it may be written by a human who likes to use them, but I find that unlikely given the context

jigmedatse@social.openpsychology.net

@zzt@mas.to EEEK!

heydon@front-end.social

@tante @fasterandworse @zzt It's a good indicator, yeah. Figma's Make generates shit like this.

non0w@mamot.fr

@semievolved @zzt *akchually*, I think there are "five principles" but distributed in 3 bullet points (yeah i know it's stupid) :
- HUMAN AGENCY
- DECENTRALIZATION
- OPEN SOURCE
- BALANCING COMMERCIAL
- PUBLIC BENEFIT

But don't get me wrong, I'm not advocating for Big M, this thing is next level slop BS and I hate it

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