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Mozilla’s Betrayal of Open Source: Google’s Gemini AI is Overwriting Volunteer Work on Support Mozilla (www.quippd.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by yoasif@fedia.io to c/technology@lemmy.world
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TL;DR: Mozilla’s translation bot on Support Mozilla (that is currently overwriting user contributions is based on the closed source, copyright infringing LLM, Google Gemini. This is in spite of Mozilla claiming that they are at the forefront of open source AI, and belies their exhortations to choose to build open source AI and data sets. Although Mozilla has experience in attracting open contributions for data sets in projects like Common Voice, Mozilla is using a closed data set to overwrite open contributions. Since (paid) Gemini queries do not train the model, Mozillians can expect to correct errors every time the bot automatically updates an article.

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[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 62 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Their support isn't required though, it's desired.

Mozilla have millions of $, they are actively investing in various money making schemes (sorry, financial investment vehicles) well outwith the original scope of Mozilla.

They take the money because they want the money, they could refuse it any time they want. But they won't, because they don't want to. They're not a poor FOSS project with an independent developer that needs donations to survive, stop treating them like they are.

Mozilla has created some brilliant software, but they're leaving their original mission behind, burning goodwill with many people around the world, and setting themselves up to be shunned by the open source community the second a viable alternative pops up.

[–] Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works 23 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

I just hope the alternatoive doesn't take too long to materialize

[–] tux0r@feddit.org 10 points 2 weeks ago

Everyone is invited to help the NetSurf project.

[–] sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 weeks ago

Librewolf is my stopgap atm. We'll see that the future holds.

[–] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I didn't hear anything bad about Servo.org

[–] HereIAm@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You wouldn't hear anything bad about it because the project, as far as I can tell, us like 4 months old. It's far too young for any daily use and to see what the project matures into.

[–] asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

as far as I can tell, us like 4 months old.

Servo is not a new browser engine. Have you done your research?

It has been in the works since 2012.

[–] HereIAm@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, you're right. I looked at the GitHub releases which seems to be a very new thing. Their updates in their website goes back much further!