Remember when every piece of Window$ software back in the day tried to get you to add their browser bar to your web browser? I really thought that would be the peak of how awful browser add-ons could get. Guess I wasn’t dreaming big enough to imagine a boondoggle as utterly useless as an LLM integrated into a browser. I mean, I hated Clippy at the time, but never imagined anyone (even a marketing clown) would try to jam him into a web browser, and have him remember everything you did online so he could chat with you about it.
What an amazing idea to try to push users from reading articles to reading bullshit hallucinations of summaries of articles. AI really feels like the thing that’s pushing us to become the humans from Wall-E faster than any other invention right now.
2006: “Install our browser toolbar! It offers a marginally useful feature, and it definitely doesn’t slow down your browser or send all your personal data to an evil corporate overlord! Promise!”
2026: “Install our browser AI addon! It offers a completely useless feature, and it absolutely slows down your browser and sends all your personal data to an evil corporate overlord! Promise!”
Man. I so do not miss toolbars.
This used to be a filter to tell which of your friends and/or family were tech literate.
Oh, the horrors.
Bonzibuddy.
I think this is the perfect example of how democracy does not exist under capitalism, much less the US Empire. Lobbying modifies the political and structural basis of any enterprise. There’s no reason for Mozilla to do this, much less have a CEO that earns as much as he do, but that’s what Google want so Mozilla will comply.
“but guys you can turn it off!!!”
Never change, Mozilla. Oh wait.
I turn off all AI things wherever I can. I don’t need it. It hasn’t really improved anything for me. And I’m also sick of hearing that acronym.
