People don’t want Firefox translation because they “want AI,” though. They want it because being able to translate web pages is a useful feature. I think it’s quite telling that nowhere in the linked article does the author actually defend Firefox’s new “Window AI” feature as useful. Instead, the only argument he can make for it is that AI is popular.
Ok so pasting it into another AI. I dont get how this changes anything.
The point is that people say they dont want AI features. But they really dont want chatbot features and are happy with AI being used for text prediction, translation, text to speech, speech to text, OCR and other useful features. Mozilla set themselves apart by adding these features on device and it was a much appreciated privacy step.
They’ve failed a lot with ai like website building, summerization, tab grouping. But the do need to try otherwise thry wikl always be considered the old browser lacking modern features instead of the bleeding edge trailblazing browser they should be.
Using third party translation services just like I want to use third party AI services instead of built-in AI is a price I’m willing to pay to come back to Firefox.
Firefox translation is AI. Should they remove that?
People don’t want Firefox translation because they “want AI,” though. They want it because being able to translate web pages is a useful feature. I think it’s quite telling that nowhere in the linked article does the author actually defend Firefox’s new “Window AI” feature as useful. Instead, the only argument he can make for it is that AI is popular.
If it’s less accurate than previously used methods of translations? Yes.
If it consumes more resources than previously used methods of translations? Yes.
For me firefox translate is better than google translate when translating english to german.
There were no previous methods of translation.
I’ve been using copy and paste to translation websites both before and after Firefox implemented translation.
Ok so pasting it into another AI. I dont get how this changes anything.
The point is that people say they dont want AI features. But they really dont want chatbot features and are happy with AI being used for text prediction, translation, text to speech, speech to text, OCR and other useful features. Mozilla set themselves apart by adding these features on device and it was a much appreciated privacy step.
They’ve failed a lot with ai like website building, summerization, tab grouping. But the do need to try otherwise thry wikl always be considered the old browser lacking modern features instead of the bleeding edge trailblazing browser they should be.
Them it’s pretty far down my list of objections. It’s not automatically enabled and hasn’t been too slow or heavy in my experience.
Using third party translation services just like I want to use third party AI services instead of built-in AI is a price I’m willing to pay to come back to Firefox.