This isn’t Mozilla taking a stance against AI.
It’s them articulating clear and logical reasons why the proposed API, in its current state, is bad for web interoperability.
This isn’t Mozilla taking a stance against AI.
It’s them articulating clear and logical reasons why the proposed API, in its current state, is bad for web interoperability.
They said that ideally we give more time for this to shake out rather than head-long into a bad API that will need to be changed later anyway, and offered the extension route as a sort of proving grounds for the concept.
If the glaring hole is that there is no way to find out which model you’re prompting without asking the model to answer that for you, that seems like a pretty easy hole to fill IMO.
Did they propose a specific alternative (non-extension) API?
Why would they? This is an issue put up on the "standards-position" repo. They requested a position on a proposed standard, and Mozilla gave it.
There’s one obvious alternative:
Right and that means people have to send their data to an external service.
Give it X months (or years??) and people will realize this is actually a privacy/data autonomy issue.
It's just dominated right now by the anti-AI/anti-technology sentiment in the west. That will gradually go away as more people use AI and robotics and realize how wrong they were about it.
>Right and that means people have to send their data to an external service.
Nothing in this proposal claims it has to be a local AI. That just happens to be the implementation by Chrome and Edge (for now at least, I'd imagine Google will eventually start moving this API towards hosted Gemini).
That's an important aspect of this that should really be part of the discussion on GitHub. But I've been told I'm not qualified to interject so I am not going to bother.
I will use WebLLM if I want something like this (with local AI guaranteed).
No, that’s not how this process usually happens.
Why would they need to?
So I guess the question would be, "What makes this acceptable Tech". I don't know how you get there without offering some type of "Search" like choice for open models. We all know how that turned out.
Maybe Mozilla can save itself by getting paid to serve Google's model as default rather than another providers. Would replace the revenue stream they lost.