To be clear, "it's there but you can turn it off" is not enough for me, I already stopped using SwiftKey, Microsoft Windows, Miro, etc on the basis of "we put AI in the software with an option to turn it off". If an org ships a "generative AI" product I want to boycott them and I want everyone to boycott them until they go out of business. I don't want a virus on my hard drive even if it's turned off. But Mozilla's ever-shifting checkbox scavenger hunt has never *resembled* "can easily turn off"
@mcc Once a project includes AI… no, once a project's leaders enthuse about AI, that's when I lose my trust in it. We know it's a monopolist eco disaster of a wrong answer machine. The only sensible move is not to touch it. If they can't see that, what other mistakes are they making and not telling me about?
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