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Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox
(arstechnica.com)
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this post was submitted on 14 Feb 2024
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In theory, that sounds amazing.
In practice, it will most likely need to send the contents of your browser to some third-party server. No, thanks.
(Unless it's crowdsourced, like the first person to visit a page gets dinged, but then the next persons just downloads the set of rules instead of uploading content.)
Privacy preserving federated learning is a thing - essentially you train a local model and send the weight updates back to Google rather than the data itself....but also it's early days so who knows what vulnerabilities may exist
Oh interesting!