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AlexTECPlayz

@mozilla This is how it's done! Private, open-source AI models running locally.

Q: How much storage do the models take? (EDIT: 200MB according to the post - yeah, in this case, this better be a downloadable 'module' instead of being built-in) Could you make this feature optional, which would require the user to opt-in and download or delete the model(s) themselves? I don't want Firefox to go the Microsoft Edge route, where they shovel every feature under the sun, the user has no choice, and there is no way to reduce the storage occupied by the browser.

3 June at 9:43 | Wall-to-wall | Open on techhub.social
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@alextecplayz @mozilla on that last point:
> As the project grows, we anticipate the browser will store more models, which can take up significant space on disk. We plan to add an interface in Firefox to manage downloaded models so our users can list them and remove some if needed.
(from the post)

3 June at 9:53 | Open on merveilles.town
AlexTECPlayz

@v @mozilla I skimmed through the article so I may have missed it, but that is pretty good! I'm hoping that they won't include any model by default purely to save space, unless they can make it small enough (smaller than 50-75MB), and on the first startup, to prompt the user when setting Firefox up, if they want to 'enable the feature', which would download the AI model(s).

3 June at 9:56 | Open on techhub.social
v

@alextecplayz @mozilla the flow for translations they give is this:
> For example, if you run Firefox in French and visit an English page, Firefox will ask if you want to translate it to French and download the English-to-French model (~20MiB) alongside the inference runtime. This is a one-shot download: translations will happen completely offline once those files are on disk.
which seems very reasonable!

3 June at 9:58 | Open on merveilles.town
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@alextecplayz @mozilla Just wait until you hear about Mozilla's brand new shopping toolbar. They bought a company that used to dabble in NFTs before switching to claiming to have AI.

And just for fun, this new Mozilla subsidiary will sell browsing history and location data to advertisers... as laid out here.

fakespot.com/privacy-policy
(Ctrl+F for "Personal Information is Sold")

3 June at 19:09 | Open on mastodon.social
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