They support Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, HuggingChat, and Mistral.

  • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works
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    29 days ago

    I will say, the Le Chat provider is pretty decent. You really can use it more natural language. “Rewrite it with a better rhyme scheme” “remove the last line” and it just got it.

    Why no local option though? Why no anonmysing option?

    Edit: There is a right click option which does make this officially actually useful for me now (summarize this!).

    Other models do have RAG options and Mist real supports making agents with specified documentation too to at least fine tune too (not as good as full grounding though IMHO)

  • nu11@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    29 days ago

    I don’t understand the hate. It’s just a sidebar for the supported LLMs. Maybe I’m misunderstanding?

    Yes, I would prefer Mozilla focus on the browser, but to me, this seems like it was done in an afternoon.

    • PrefersAwkward@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      29 days ago

      It seems like common cynicism. Mozilla add this feature, as not to yield major features to other browsers. Mozilla’s lets you natively have lots of different AI solutions to pick from.

      Not every feature is for everyone. Not every feature is done being improved on at release.

      And in spite of popular opinions, organizations don’t do just one thing and then do just the next thing and the thing after that. Organizations can and do focus on and prioritize many things at the same time.

      And for people who are naysaying AI at every mention, it has a lot of great and fascinating uses, and if you think otherwise, you really should try them more. I’ve used it plenty for work and life. It’s not going away, might as well do some nice things with it.

    • Scrollone@feddit.it
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      29 days ago

      I want my browser to be a browser. I don’t want Pocket, I don’t want AI, I don’t want bullshit. There are plugins for that.

          • ToxicWaste@lemm.ee
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            26 days ago

            i know it is an unpopular opinion around here. but currently AI features open doors for sales. that is important.

            for the software i help develop, we introduced an optional AI integration. just its presence allowed us to sell the main SW multiple times. the AI plugin was never sold so far.

            investment AI: 2 weeks of gluecode. i am not concerned with finances, but that plugin is for sure net positive.

            • LWD@lemm.ee
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              25 days ago

              Do users like the AI integration, or is this just something the management class wanted to see? Right now, those clothes look crazy good on that emperor…

  • Scrollone@feddit.it
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    29 days ago

    Wow, great job Firefox. Thanks.

    If I wanted unreliable bullshit like AI, I’d use Chrome.

  • JokeDeity@lemm.ee
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    29 days ago

    Unpopular opinion, I think they’re doing it right as well as it can be at least. It’s completely optional and doesn’t seem to be intrusive.

  • celeste@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    29 days ago

    If they do it in a privacy-preseeving way, this could help them get back market share which will generally benefit an open internet.

      • celeste@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        28 days ago

        Because browsers are the most useful tool on most computers. Ordinary People go on google/ask chatgpt for mundane questions. If their browser can do that they need 1 app less and it will be more convenient which is what especially non-tech savy people care about.

  • fibojoly@sh.itjust.works
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    29 days ago

    Didn’t want it in Opera, don’t want it in Firefox. I mean they can keep trying and I’ll just keep on ignoring this shit :/

  • ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world
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    30 days ago

    as someone who’s never dabbled with ai bots, what does this feature do? is it only to query for information like a web search?

    • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      30 days ago

      From the description in the UI, it does sound like it. Theoretically, a chatbot could be created where you can ask questions about the webpage you have currently opened, so if you don’t want to read a long article, for example. I guess, you could probably just throw a link into an existing chatbot either way, but yeah, direct integration might be convenient either way.

      Well, or a chatbot could be created, which has access to your browser history, bookmarks and tabs, so you can ask it when you last saw certain information. However, you’d need a locally running chatbot for that, which makes it more difficult to implement.

    • LWD@lemm.ee
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      29 days ago

      It is a sidebar that sends a query from your browser directly to a server run by a giant corporation like Google or OpenAI, consumes an excessive amount of carbon/water, then sends a response back to you that may or may not be true (because AI is incapable of doing anything but generating what it thinks you want to see).

      Not only is it unethical in my opinion, it’s also ridiculously rudimentary…

      • TheMachineStops@discuss.tchncs.de
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        29 days ago

        It gives you many options on what to use, you can use Llama which is offline. Needs to be enabled though about:config > browser.ml.chat.hideLocalhost.

        • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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          29 days ago

          and thus is unavailable to anyone who isn’t a power user, as they will never see a comment like this and about:config would fill them with dread

        • LWD@lemm.ee
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          28 days ago

          There’s a huge difference between something that is presented in an easily accessible settings menu, and something that requires you to go to an esoteric page, click through a scary warning message, and then search for esoteric settings… Before even installing a server.

          Nothing was compelling Mozilla to rush this through. In addition, nobody was asking Mozilla for remote access to AI, AFAIK. Before Mozilla pushed for it, people were praising them for resisting the temptation to follow the flock. They could have waited and provided better defaults.

          Or just wedged it into an extension, something they’re currently doing anyway.

    • Furball@sh.itjust.works
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      30 days ago

      It just adds ChatGPT or similar to your sidebar. Chatbots can do a lot of things, they are mostly good for information research and technical help, although they have serious flaws like hallucinating false information sometimes

      • Pup Biru@aussie.zoneEnglish
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        28 days ago

        good for information research and technical help

        i’d say they are good precursors for information research… never trust them, but use them to find terms to search for reliable sources