Starting with Firefox 148, which rolls out on Feb. 24, you’ll find a new AI controls section within the desktop browser settings. It provides a single place to block current and future generative AI features in Firefox.
They actually listened to the community, thats very nice.
It seems pretty clear to me that despite the ambiguity of the term AI, people are specifically railing against LLMs, not ML. It also seems clear to me that the new Firefox direction as announced by their CEO is to incorporate more LLM specifically into the browser.
LLM is a subset of ML. Now screen reader also use LLM to describe image for visual impair users.
Some of these are tiny LLM that run on mobile hardware.
There are also LLM that specialize in translation (TranslateGemma), specialized in coding (QwenCode/Devstral), OCR (QwenVL), etc…
I feel that people should chill out and stop these irrational hate.