Indeed.

This doesn’t solve anything. People are going to find alternatives and some will be way worse than these websites.

I don’t do complex math in my head but I do all the “simple math” (money conversions, add, subtract, etc) in my head (unless they are huge numbers). I believe it’s important to keep sovereignty of our mind and not stop thinking and exercising it altogether.

It’s just going to make the old computer skills obsolete. Just like modern compilers made assembly obsolete to a large extent. I don’t even have a problem with it: like I said, it’s just progress.

I think less and less people will have these skills and maybe that will make this knowledge more valuable in the future. (reverse engineering, performance gains, etc)

It’s gonna put everybody out of a job and unravel the very fabric of society

I don’t know if this is accurate. Companies are starting to wake up and see that using LLMs is not as good and productive as they were led to believe. Some were even forced to rehire the people they laid off. Tokens are getting way too expensive. Things are slowly getting derailed.

they’re deploying it to turbo-charge the surveillance capitalist system that made them rich in the first place, putting privacy and democracy in grave danger.

100% agree with this. Furthermore, if most people become AI dependant and trust everything it says (as I’m seeing happening with young and some older people), you have the perfect tool for mass control, even better than social media…and we can still talk about the impact it has in the environment, which is another matter entirely.

I have no problem with AI as a technology

The technology is not at fault here, it never is. The problem always resides with the people and in this case with the values of each society. In a society were empathy is becoming a myth or a sign of weakness and where people only care about themselves, giving them a technology that works for them at a lower cost, will only reveal their true selfs.

I personally hate LLMs, I think they are a cancer in our society and people don’t understand what they should offload to it. They obviously are going to use it wrong, they are going to lose their hard earned skills and only noticed it way too late and eventually it will be used as a way to create narratives to control the people since they trust it blindly.

That said, if you are using it as a search engine, review and understand what it spews and don’t trust it blindly, it seems to be a pretty sensible way to do some things.

Personally, if I have the choice, I will never use it for the reasons listed above, because they hallucinate too much for being useful to me and because I take pleasure in doing my job the old fashioned way but I can see some things being done faster with them, if combined with this approach.

I think this is called dementia

Here we go again. Obviously they will implement this in the most correct way possible…what could go wrong? /s

There are some laws in America that prevents Google and companies in general, of having a monopoly. Google has every interest of having a competitor because of this, hence why they give them money…unless the law is changed…

After they broke their promise to never collect our data, I’m not very optimistic towards the future of FF but for now, it’s kinda all we have

I agree, that’s the dream at least. Even Mozilla has been making poor choices (AI and changes to their privacy policy with more nuanced language so they can share your data with their partners, which goes directly against their old promise to never share it or collect it). My faith in them is very much shaken but yeah, they are still better than the alternative…for now.

For what I remember they only compiled it to Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD and some ARM architectures. You can always compile it yourself altho, the wait time is lengthy.

No. If you are looking for binaries you have them here https://ungoogled-software.github.io/ungoogled-chromium-binaries/

As always, it didn’t find/create anything new.

Vivaldi is better than most. Most of it, is open-source, only the UI is not, for marketing/brand, etc reasons (they explained it better here https://vivaldi.com/blog/technology/why-isnt-vivaldi-browser-open-source/). I prefer to use Zen or arkenfox but since Mozilla appears to be following the “AI everywhere” route I will stick with Zen for now. For work related, sometimes I have to use a chromium browser so I use Vivaldi since I don’t like Brave. One other option would be to use ungoogled-chromium which is chromium but without any google spyware or services for that matter but, because of that, you can’t easily install extensions so it’s a trade-off.

The article is clearly AI slop