Translate sure.

Image search? I have a search engine for that.

Live captions? Didn’t ask for that, wouldn’t use it.

Dubbing? Ditto.

Summary? Wouldn’t trust an AI for that, plus it’s just more tik-tokification. No fucking thanks. I don’t need to experience life as short blips of everything.

Rewrite text better? Might as well kill myself once I’m ready to let a predictive text bot write shit in my place.

So… no thanks.

I get very annoyed by generative AI, but to be fair I could imagine an AI-powered "Ctrl+F" which searches text by looser meaning-based matches, rather than strict character matches; for example Ctrl+AI+F "number of victims" in a news article, or Ctrl+AI+F "at least 900 W" when sorting through a list of microwave ovens on Walmart.

Or searching for text in images with OCR. Or searching my own browsing history for that article about that thing.

  > Translation?

  > Image search?

  > Live captions?

  > Dubbing?

  > Summary?

  > Rewrite text better?

All those things we had before AI?

Safari does most of this by leveraging system-level AI features, some of which are entirely local (and in turn, can be and do get used elsewhere throughout the system and native apps). This model makes a lot more sense to me than building the browser around an LLM.

Exactly. There’s doom and gloom in this thread but the truth is that the early adopters who are using AI-integrated browsers love them.

Mozilla having unique features is what made it popular in the first place (tabbed browsing versus IE6).