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Mozilla is adding tab grouping, vertical tabs, profile management, and local AI features to Firefox (connect.mozilla.org)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I can’t see how AI can’t be done in a privacy-respecting way [edit: note the double negative there]. The problem that worries me is performance. I have used texto-to-speech AI and it absolutely destroys my poor processors. I really hope there’s an efficient way of adding alt text, or of turning the feature off for users who don’t need it.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago

If it runs locally then no data ever leaves your system, so privacy would be respected. There are tons of good local-only LLMs out there right now.

As far as performance goes, current x86 CPUs are awful, but stuff coming out from ARM and likely from Intel/AMD in the future will be much better at running this stuff.