@reflex @froztbyte @ZBennoui @ddelemeny the service staff that have to deal with you have my condolences. I am not one of them.

@jaffathecake @ZBennoui @reflex @ddelemeny aww is the widdle abuser angry nao?

@spz @reflex @froztbyte @ddelemeny a deliberate misinterpretation. Nice try.

@jaffathecake @reflex @froztbyte @ddelemeny allll the world is misinterpreting you SO BADLY. How EVER could that have come to pass?

sheesh.

@jaffathecake @reflex @froztbyte @ZBennoui @ddelemeny you should have seen this one time I ordered a burger and the waiter served me a salad and I said I ordered a burger but he kept talking about vegetarians and how the plate was designed based on feedback from a poll about the best colours with the options being brown, grey, and ‍️ but every time I asked about the burger the waiter told me that vegetarians don't like to eat meat

@spz @jaffathecake @reflex @ddelemeny "is it me? no, it must be everyone else that is wrong"

@fasterandworse @jaffathecake @froztbyte @ZBennoui @ddelemeny So much this.

@reflex @Orb2069 @jaffathecake @froztbyte @ddelemeny or maybe they're using an AI assistant to reply ?

@antares @reflex @Orb2069 @jaffathecake @ddelemeny more's the idiot them if they're doing that

@wojtek
@wariat @fabio @firefoxwebdevs Because it exposes users to a wide variety of technical and cognitive hazards, has a significant labor rights and ecological impact, is changing the structure of public discourse in ways that are broadly incompatible with democracy, and represents a fundamental change in what the piece of software the users are installing does, ontologically. Why do you think it's justified forcing that change on anyone who doesn't notice it's there or understand why they might not want it?

@antares @Orb2069 @jaffathecake @froztbyte @ddelemeny If it were AI it would be telling us what we would like to hear....

@ar_do
Its because they are trying since day one to apply the AI label to translations, to try to put people in the moral ground of "Oh, but you DO use AI, silly boy "

Altough it was never called AI until the marketing people made it so, and many peoples are asking to not put it in that category, but how else would you see the "What you're missing out when blocking AI" banner if it wasn't for that?

@firefoxwebdevs

@firefoxwebdevs @ArneBab and also, not only "block" instead of disable, but "enhancements" instead of features

@duke_of_germany

I was one of those people that USED TO recommend Firefox.

@jonny @jaffathecake @firefoxwebdevs @davidgerard

@jaffathecake

@froztbyte @barubary

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"hey, you know that place that has a strong representation of people who don't like AI? They don't like AI."
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I think you find that's called "the majority of the world population on the web that doesn't have a vested interest of profiting from the very flawed impression LLM AI is good at what the tech bros are trying to use it for". Why do you think nobody wants

Microslop Co-Pilot? Why do you think people are moving from Windows to Linux? Why do you think that OpenAI has woeful conversion to paid customers? Why do you think people are moving from Firefox to Vivaldi, that have stated they won't put AI in their products.

@jaffathecake @froztbyte @barubary

@ArneBab @firefoxwebdevs @dveditz

If you're gonna finagle the context then of course you can paint a more hopeful picture. We're of different minds & I won't change yours, but I also can't seem to help but respond since this is a topic I feel so strongly about. So I'm gonna do my best to paint the picture outright & mute the thread for my sanity.

1. We're less than a decade away before the damage to the climate is irreversible.
2. Mastodon has 5% of total twitter users after a decade.
3. Chrome, Safari, Edge, & Firefox make up 93% of all web traffic.
4. The US is already a fascist country, & countries don't revert after manufacturing consent to elect a fascist. Never in the history of ever; only violence changes this.
5. The right wing Nazification pipelines silicon valley made are highly effective at manufacturing said consent.
6. The US is pushing other nations to the right, & doing so effectively (see: brexit, age verification, chat control, etc).
7. The only thing the majority implementation of AI does effectively is destabilization. Examples: poisoning the information well with disinformation, using up freshwater resources & electricity at the rate of entire countries (so far), validating delusions for those believing AI is actually "thinking".
8. The stat of Nazi regimes lasting 30-50 years on average is based on much less advanced tools of population control.
9. Humanity cannot survive 50+ years of fascism due to the environmental damage alone.
10. Fascism benefits from catastrophe because enough pain & people *want* to be deluded, just to mentally escape from it.

There's not nearly enough power nor force nor scale in what already exists to push back against this. I'm not gonna call it an outright inevitability, but if nothing changes it will be.

@firefoxwebdevs Make it an extension that I can ignore. Until then, I'm sticking with #Waterfox.

@firefoxwebdevs it's like putting a bomb on my wheelchair and saying "don't worry, you can turn it off and will only be activated once you've interacted with the bomb"

@wojtek @firefoxwebdevs What do you think about the ethical concerns?