"Unlike many of the companies stuffing AI into their browsers, Mozilla will soon give you a way to turn all of these features off. An update coming on February 24th will add a new "AI control" option to Firefox's settings menu, allowing you to disable or enable the browser's individual AI features, including access to a built-in AI chatbot, translations, AI tab group suggestions, and more."
""AI is changing the web, and people want very different things from it," Ajit Varma, Firefox's vice president of product, writes in the announcement. "We've heard from many who want nothing to do with AI. We've also heard from others who want AI tools that are genuinely useful. Listening to our community, alongside our ongoing commitment to offer choice, led us to build AI controls.""
"Mozilla CEO Anthony Enzor-DeMeo told The Verge last year that he believes there's space for another AI browser from a "technology company that people can trust." In December, Enzor-DeMeo promised an AI "kill switch" in response to users unhappy with Firefox's embrace of AI. "Choice matters and demonstrating our commitment to choice is how we build and maintain trust," Enzor-DeMeo wrote at the time."
Firefox will introduce an "AI control" option on February 24 that lets users enable or disable individual AI features or switch off all current and upcoming AI features. The controls will manage a built-in AI chatbot, translations, AI tab group suggestions, AI-generated alt text for images in PDFs, and generated key points in link previews. Firefox has added AI tools like "shake to summarize" on iPhone and is developing an opt-in "AI Window" assistant. Mozilla previously committed to an AI "kill switch" after user concerns and positions the controls as a means to offer user choice.
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