I don’t understand how they are supposed to “sell your data” if you just never use a Mozilla account and uncheck all the telemetry. Its not like they can secretly steal your data, since its Open Source.

It seems to me like just more FUD that Google is spreading to undermine our trust in free software.

  • macniel
    1•21 days ago

    you don’t need AI for automated translations though.

    • @nesc@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      1•20 days ago

      There is no ai in ai, it’s just a program. In case of firefox translations it was made specifically for machine translation and later adapted to use with firefox browser.

      • macniel
        1•20 days ago

        There is no ai in ai, it’s just a program.

        well duh. But why is Mozilla investing in LLM research then?

        • @nesc@lemmy.cafeEnglish
          1•20 days ago

          Firefox translate isn’t an llm afaik. Anyway, why wouldn’t they? LLMs aren’t inherently good or bad, they are useful, and pushing for offline local first ai is a good thing.

          • macniel
            1•20 days ago

            is the LLM or its trainingdata opensource though, do we know what it does/is trained on?

            • @nesc@lemmy.cafeEnglish
              1•20 days ago

              There are truly open llm, there are somewhat open. If you are asking about firefox translate, it seems that models themselves weren’t trained by mozilla.