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Meet Orbit, Mozilla's AI Assistant Extension for Firefox
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this post was submitted on 31 Dec 2024
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I appreciate the option to not install it.
Now if only Mozilla could migrate their built-in AI stuff to this optional extension so it doesn't come pre-installed, that'd be great
The built-in AI staff,you referred to, is nothing but an accelerator to integrate with 3rd-party or self-hosted LLMs. It's quite similar to choosing a search engine in settings. This feature itself is lightweight and can be disabled in settings if not required.
Users are only shown Big Tech "3rd-party" options. Mozilla made this choice intentionally.
Since Mozilla is clearly capable of developing an add-on that is not forcefully installed on user's devices, they should remove the built-in thing that endorses the highly unethical chatbots run by Google, OpenAI, etc.
Well, how many users really have LLM local-hosted?
So we agree Mozilla only chose to promote Big Tech options.