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Automatically generated page summaries as an experimental feature of Firefox 139 nightly
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This feels like windows recall...
Except without the shitty parts where it keeps a log of everything you do and sends it off your device, luckily.
Well, it is sending it off your device to the AI's API. Luckily it won't have any id information, such as cookies, screen size, OS, IP, etc.
The problem seems to be with the word luckily.
Huh? The article says:
Did I misread something?
(Agreed that this should be the norm and not luck.)
You didn't misread. It says something along the lines that being generated locally takes long, and that it could be faster to read the article and summarize it yourself.
Then, there's the inconvenience of having a small LLM instance installed locally: being small means it's not very effective, but "small" is not really small... So what could the future bring us?
Exactly! The convenience of a big LLM, that is fast, that is more accurate, at the relative small cost of not being hosted locally. It's a slippery slope, and as LLMs evolve (both in effectiveness and size), I think we know where it all ends.
Ah OK, so it just feels like Windows Recall if we assume it's going to become Windows Recall in the future...