TL;DR: Mozilla is killing localization on Support Mozilla, overwriting articles written by humans with machine generated translations. Although Mozilla knows that their AI doesn’t localize or adhere to style guides, Mozilla is going live with it anyway. I thank locale leaders and localizers for their tireless efforts. Locale leaders seem to be obviated by AI, and Mozilla has nothing to say about it.

TL;DR: Mozilla is killing localization on Support Mozilla, overwriting articles written by humans with machine generated translations. Although Mozilla knows that their AI doesn’t localize or adhere to style guides, Mozilla is going live with it anyway. I thank locale leaders and localizers for their tireless efforts. Locale leaders seem to be obviated by AI, and Mozilla has nothing to say about it.

  • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
    53·
    22 hours ago

    standard approach with such a controversial feature

    The “controversial” features:

    1. Alt-text generation: Creates descriptions for images, which is particularly useful for making PDFs more accessible to screen readers.
    2. On-device translation: Translates web pages without sending your content to external servers, protecting your privacy.
    3. Smart tab groups: Analyzes open tabs to suggest names and group similar ones together to help with organization.
    4. Link previews: Generates key points from articles to give you a quick summary.

    These are all very modest in requirements even on an old phone. And the use is actually zero unless you use the function.
    AFAIK all further AI functionalities are all optional.

    Number one is particularly useful for blind people, a group that absolutely needs screen readers to work well.

    So again stop the bullshitting, just because you are bullshitting yourself too doesn’t make it better.
    Either that or mention just one single specific function you “needed” to disable and why.
    IMO your misunderstood whining is annoying.

    Personally I use the translation function a lot, it is both very handy and very good, and I have used it for both Russian and Ukrainian and Chinese, and it works surprisingly well.
    But maybe you speak every language on the planet, or find it more convenient to use an online translator, leaving unnecessary extra digital trails and requiring extra bandwidth?
    How you don’t find that feature useful is beyond me???

    • Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      5 hours ago

      I rarely ever use translation features. I never visit sites which are in a language I don’t understand. 🤷‍♂️ So this would be nice if it were opt in, I guess.

      But I definitely have the processing power to run it. Buuut of course not everyone does.

      • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        5 hours ago

        this would be nice if it were opt in, I guess.

        It doesn’t do shit if you don’t use it, why would you want opt in for that?
        The same goes for the other features.

        • Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish
          13·
          5 hours ago

          Because on every machine where I open Firefox for the first time, I have to tell it not to translate my language. It’s a small dance I have to do every so often. Bit annoying, innit.

          • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            5 hours ago

            It doesn’t translate anything automatically, you have to choose translation manually for a site in a foreign language. It ALWAYS shows the original first.
            So that’s complete and utter made up bullshit.