alt Hacker NewsDoes it also remove Firefox's translation models that uses local CPU? I find that feature very useful and totally obliterated my dependence on Chrome's translate features. Models are surprisingly good, especially for languages like English, Spanish and German.
I can see the use of LLMs and machine learning tools like TTS, translators and grammar checkers to be integrated to browser, but only depending on local models or better, like Firefox's case to CPU optimized local models.
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bluebarbet • today at 2:56 PM
Indeed. For translation, local LLMs are a straightforward privacy win. Not that they're getting much credit for that.
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It explicitly doesn't, though they don't explain why not. It's not an on/off device distinction because it disables Firefox's automatic tab groups too.
A lot of anti-AI backlash seems to exempt machine translation, which as far as I can tell is just because it's been around for so long that people are comfortable with it and don't see it as new or AI-y, which imho spells doom for a lot of this- in ten years automatic tab groups will seem just as natural and non-intrusive as machine translation.