AI browsing mode is coming to the Firefox web browser, Mozilla announce. Interested users can join a waiting list to get invite-only early access. Details inside.
  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    4 hours ago

    I wonder if I could use this to just browse for me. like 24 hour, round the clock browsing. see a link, click the link. see an ad, click the ad.

    just really fuck up all their metrics.

  • Maxxie@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    6·
    4 hours ago

    Are they jonesing for openai giving them another google-sized payout? Otherwise I don’t get the rationale, the overlap of their users and people wanting ai browser is one freshman from California? Not to mention Firefox has nowhere near enough cash to burn on this thing to compete with AI companies doing the exact same thing.

    (obligatory “ai, ew”)

  • onlinepersona@programming.devEnglish
    3·
    4 hours ago

    Mozilla needs to die and be reborn under the wing of better management and community drive, because they seem to have been captured by money hungry fucks. They dont give a shit about opensource. It’s just a pipe through which they can get Google money.

    • FaceDeer@fedia.io
      81·
      7 hours ago

      With their user base, or with this particular social media bubble we’re in right now?

    • Meron35@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 hours ago

      There is an AI browser war going on right now, see Comet (Perplexity), Atlas (ChatGPT), Claude AI Agent from Chrome etc.

      They work by letting the AI continuously see everything your browser can see, such as your emails, banking details, financial habits, online shopping accounts, etc.

      By doing so, they promise to be better digital assistants, so that you ask just ask the browser to do tasks such as online shopping, booking holidays, etc.

      Even ignoring the severe privacy concerns, AI browsers are significantly prone to prompt injection. That is, any random webpage with hidden text can override the instructions you give it to carry out malicious attacks.

    • over_clox@lemmy.worldEnglish
      181·
      9 hours ago

      Prolly like if you look up something that doesn’t actually exist, it’ll find you results anyways.

      This ought to be fun for Rule 34…

    • Riskable@programming.devEnglish
      33·
      6 hours ago

      Today, when you search for something you get a handful of ads, SEO-optimized bullshit, and maybe the 6th link will be what you were actually looking for.

      When you tell the AI agent (in your browser) to search for something, not only do you get the most relevant results (because you can make your prompt vastly more specific and detailed), you completely skip all that other stuff that you didn’t want.

      I’ve been saying for some time now that AI is going to kill free search engines because it’s such a better way to search for stuff. Free search engines like Google and SEO-optimizing companies are hindrances to efficient browsing and drowning the web in bullshit. Poisoning search results.

      An AI agent will skip past all that stuff and give you just what you want; you never see any ads!

      • Lemminary@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        4 hours ago

        That’s assuming the AI won’t look at the results and still make shit up. I’ve used AI-assisted search and i know that it’s not reliable.

      • seathru@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        7·
        6 hours ago

        An AI agent will skip past all that stuff and give you just what you want; you never see any ads!

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