@vmbrasseur thx for sharing the link. The theme of my reply was "fix bugs, add boring but useful features", and I was surprised by how much effort it took to request this. Better legislative advocacy is an option, but not bug fixes? Enhanced AI is a checkbox but I have to write in "improve software stability" under Other (Please Specify)?

@vmbrasseur

Everyone vote in this poll too: -

Are you YES AI or NO AI? Vote now.

Take a stand at VoteYesOrNoAI.com

(voteyesornoai.com)

Mozilla should look at the results too as NO AI is winning 92% to 8% so far.

@vmbrasseur looks like they didn't like the results of their poll on Mastodon so they created a new poll elsewhere. @firefoxwebdevs please, just stop pushing AI. Just make the browser!

@lars @notbobbytables @vmbrasseur

Thanks for posting this. I'd forgotten that Mozilla wanted input. I'm a very long-time user of Mozilla products. Here is what I said, for the record:

Throw away all that AI garbage. Forget AI. It's wasteful and unethically sourced, and not broadly useful for Mozilla's mission, or for most users. Stick to your open source, public-service roots and keep developing good software without any AI.

@vmbrasseur @nixCraft After two decades(?) of pushing people to use Firefox, I’ve given up and use Vivaldi now. I’m hoping Servo becomes a viable alternative to Chrom*, because Firefox has given up completely.

@vmbrasseur https://mozilla.social/

@vmbrasseur Ok, no focus on AI.
So, just drop it.

@vmbrasseur nailed it

@vmbrasseur "Leveraging AI to help address societal issues such as racial justice, climate justice, gender justice, etc."
Huh?

@vmbrasseur Done!