Even that offline translation is annoying to me. I speak more than one language and Firefox constantly offering to translate for me.

There is an option for "Never translate website X." and "Never translate language Y." But there is no option for "Never translate anything. Fuck right off!"

Librewolf also just adds patches on top of a Firefox release. It's fine if you want a browser that works out of the box but it's still Firefox.

In my opinion the resulting translations aren't of very high quality. I like the idea of the feature, but the execution is lacking.

Karl Marx never said "destroy the means of production". Even if AI will put people out of work it's not the technology that does that but our economic system. And the concerns about water and electricity are overblown, it is having major impacts on the local level but globally it's not that large a share of the pie. And it's image and video that consumes the most water and electricity so definitely stay away from those, especially AI video because if that takes off that WILL be a problem.

Obligatory "I absolutely think AI will make the world a worse place". I also would never use AI myself because it cedes control over my thoughts to whoever owns it and undermines my critical thinking. Nevermind the hallucinations.

People in this community (and Firefox communities in general) tend to simply not to read and downvote when Mozilla is releasing a completely optional¹ and deactivatable features to their browser, but also this is Lemmy, where "AI" = BAD.

In Firefox, you’ll never be locked into one ecosystem or have AI forced into your browsing experience. You decide when, how or whether to use it at all.

Gut reaction to disheartening news, most likely.

They give you the option to disable it. What more do you want? Custom builds where only the features you want built just for you?

In Librewolf there is no AI ^^

At least not out-of-the-box. Dunno if you can dig it up via about:config. Not via normal Settings I think.