TL;DR: Mozilla recently released AI controls for Firefox: a single control panel that lets people disable AI features in the browser or pick and choose which to leave on. On the surface, this sounds like a win for user choice in an era of AI-everything.

If we dig deeper, you can start to see that the kill switch isn’t the whole story. This feature acts like an accountability sink. By giving you an off-switch, Mozilla’s leadership shifts the ethical burden of AI onto the user - turning their design choices into your responsibility.

  • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
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    13 hours ago

    It’s understandable. Those other examples are completely expected. For a FOSS project people have higher expectations and feel betrayed by Mozilla’s moves with this.