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Thank Mozilla for Killing Localization on Support Mozilla (And Replacing Human Contributions With AI Bots) (www.quippd.com)
submitted 19 hours ago by yoasif@fedia.io to c/technology@lemmy.world
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TL;DR: Mozilla is killing localization on Support Mozilla, overwriting articles written by humans with machine generated translations. Although Mozilla knows that their AI doesn’t localize or adhere to style guides, Mozilla is going live with it anyway. I thank locale leaders and localizers for their tireless efforts. Locale leaders seem to be obviated by AI, and Mozilla has nothing to say about it.

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[–] hobwell@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

You actually can set up the sidebar to use a local LLM. In about:config the key is something like “browser.ml.chat.hideLocalhost”

I have it setup to use my local Ollama instance and it works great.

Unfortunately, I don’t see a way to specify an alternate external server, which would be nice.

[–] greybeard@feddit.online 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

How nice of them to have easy options for paid third party services, and hide the local options under about:config where I'd have no idea it even exists without a kind stranger letting me know.

[–] hobwell@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 hours ago

Yeah, it’s not great that it isn’t visible by default. Would be nice if they had an “add/remove” option as well.

Glad you were able to get it set up!

[–] greybeard@feddit.online 3 points 5 hours ago

Thanks for the tip of checking about:config. You can specify an external server, it is also in the about:config. browser.ml.chat.provider. I'm not sure it's a feature I will ever use, but I tested it with my local Open WebUI and it seemed to work.