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people please actually read the article not the headline; this is literally about accessibility improvements for blind and visually impaired people for generating alt text inside of documents and pdfs.
That's one of the things, but it's also adding a dedicated sidebar for AI. That's the sort of thing that should just be an extension, there's absolutely no reason at all why that needs to be something built into the browser.
Developers should be providing alt text themselves, but in cases where they aren't having a local image recognition model running to provide a description isn't terrible as long as it's either 100% local or completely opt-in.
The dedicated sidebar on the other hand feels very much like a cheap attempt to cash in on the AI fad.
It most likely is on the technical level, just shipped by default and integrated into standard settings instead of the add-on ones. And it's going to be opt-in, so you won't have to go into
about:configto disable it. Speaking of: You're looking forextensions.pocket.enabled, it should befalse. And before you say "muh diskspace" it's probably like 5k of js and css or such.yeah but AI bad no matter if it would be actually useful for once
Now we just need accessibility tools for the cognitively impaired that can't seem to read the damn article.
Many of the people complaining about a feature they would just disable and never use are also the same kinds of people who would complain about basic accessibility features and call them “unnecessary bloat”.
Fuck braille bro
Yeah, why do you think you can put bumps on my nice, flat screen. Entitles pieces of crap... :)
I don't care. I don't want AI in my browser.
Nice for you, fuck blind people.
Blind people shouldn't need to give up their privacy to Microsoft and Google to have a web page read to them.
Let me just quote the top of this thread.
It doesn't just read the page to them, which is a solved problem, it generates descriptions when they're missing, making the web more accessible.
Great take.
Ai ScArY!¡! And you haven't ever used google translate?
Some people care about privacy.
no. why the hell would I use google spyware crap?
Just curious, how do you translate things? I know Mozilla recently did some local translation stuff in-browser, but what about before? Is there a good competitor to Google Translate?