Super frustrating the AI Chatbots are infecting my Firefox browser now. It looks like malware and pretty much acts like it since it cannot be disabled from the sidebar outside of closing this window. I like vertical tabs, but they require so many other options by default. Even more frustrating that the URL goes to a chrome browser link: chrome://browser/content/genai/chat.html
Alarms very heightened.
Search engines are getting increasingly harder to use & increasingly showing just AI slop, ads, or propaganda (ofc Google is at the cunting edge of this).
Not any of current big ones, but in the future I hope I’ll be using a personal local open sauce AI just to have it interface with various megacorp AI (eg to do a search for me, or even more dystopian, to eg contact my bank’s AI more efficiently).
And no, we have no idea how it will look like exactly, but they (megacorps) need to monetise AI, and with valuations that high (& atm still basically offering it for free or very cheap for individual consumers) I think that means they need to establish an environment where you won’t be able to function without a few of the big AIs (they are engineering demand & a consolidated/monopolistic market & when they have it the sub prices will skyrocket).
Mozilla is just giving us (albeit shitty/perhaps unwanted) options.
We are not stopping enshitification & neither can Mozilla (and they as a foundation are trying).