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We discussed this briefly a few days ago. No one understands why Mozilla likes to waste their time and money on random sideprojects that nobody likes or asked for... Instead of something useful, or the things lots of people ask them to do.
And summarization is among the worst things you can do with LLMs. I'm not against AI, but they're really not good at this specific thing. I'm not sure if people will use it anyways, but I think this project is a waste of resources.
I feel like Mozilla are in a difficult position. They're reliant on Google to exist, it seems. When they try to do something else to make an alternate revenue stream everyone says to stick to the thing they do that nobody in the world pays for.
I genuinely don't know what people expect from Mozilla.
People simultaneously want them to give up their search engine payments, but also get angry at them for trying to make revenue any other way.
Web engine development costs hundreds of millions per year. It's a phenomenally complex and expensive endeavour, with no obvious path to revenue unless you hoover up user data, which Mozilla doesn't want to do.