Mozilla announces their new AI website builder, community reacts appropriately

Appropriately? Not a single comment on that post gives any good reason why they're butthurt.
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  The first is not just wrong, but also dumb.
  It’s wrong because anything this website builder can make, an existing template system would be able to do with admittedly more work. No designer needed.
  It’s dumb because this is the argument used for literally anything that makes things easier for the layman. Would you rather we live without refrigerators so the milkman has a job? 🤦🏻‍♂️
  The second is an ongoing argument with any AI model. And while it brings up a good point, it’s really just the same argument but with “freelancer” and “developer” instead of “artist” or “author.” It doesn’t actually have anything to do with the tool.
  And the third is just… someone complaining in a non specific way that is both oddly condescending, while also ignoring the fact that companies (and people) can work on more than one thing. Shocking.
  If these weren’t opinions, I’d say they were wrong. I mean, they are wrong to be clear, but I won’t say it.
- that's what happens when a social platform doesn't have negative feedback (downvotes)
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  Those are stupid and I doubt any web developer wrote these. Unless they were also scared about WYSIWYG editors 25+ years ago.
  
  "The steam loom is going to put weavers out of work, industrialization is a double edged sword and needs to be carefully considered".
  This is the same complaint made about literally every single AI programme. It's not necessarily invalid, but if Mozilla doesn't move into this space plenty of other competitors still will.
  Mozilla is allowed to do more than one thing.
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  I would say one potential upside for this is that it would be somewhat shocking for mozilla's AI website builder to not build websites that work with Firefox.
  Apparently a lot of developers are relying on Chrome only JavaScript packages and that is what is breaking several of the websites that I go to for Firefox.

What is the appropriate response to an AI website builder? If it works well, that sounds pretty nice.
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  I'm sorry but this is daft.
  Mozilla is dying. Asking their tiny and dwindling user base what they think Mozilla should invest in will not save them.
  I don't know if getting into AI will, but just following whatever absolutely tiny minority of their already tiny 2% of the web browser market share that bothers to fill out a survey won't help them.
  
  So the answer this time is not building open source AI?
- I'd love something like this.

People shitting on it for free, as if Mozilla introduced the concept of generated websites (which don't really need AI, btw), or as if the average run-of-the-mill Wordpress site was any better.
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  Can I ask why this is important to you? Did you donate and don't like how your money is used?
  ETA: I asked, because I wondered if it has to do with AI-tech specifically, as many here obviously believe. OP kindly answered my question in DMs. They obviously do not wish the details to be public, but I believe I can say that the answer was very reasonable and not connected to AI-tech. (There's nothing in the answer which is private or couldn't be made public, but it's up to them.)

Most websites are cookie cutter garbage anyways. I see no problems with cutting out the middle men of people who know his to fill out a template and install WordPress plugins.
Actually good and unique websites will still require design and programming work.
- What kind of keyboard do you use by chance?
  
  Ha, I was typing on my phone, using OpenBoard, it really sucks at accidental b's instead of spaces. And backspace likes to deleted spaces between words.

Might pay to read up on the luddites.
They protested against manufacturers who used machines in "a fraudulent and deceitful manner" to replace the skilled labour of workers and drive down wages by producing inferior goods.
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The same "community" would be rallying around this if it were the 1900s.
- Lmao! I didn't know we had the internet in the 1900s
  
  You might also not know that we've had cameras since 1816

Yeah... Focus on the browser. Nothing else matters.

LOL, people on that thread don't seem very happy.

I just tested it, i like their fake reviews section xD

I guess I feel bad for website template designers (e.g. Wordpress)? Their customers are the main target audience for these sorts of very imprecise, black box tools. Along with people using generic website builders from hosts.
- Do you feel bad for the data centers that virtual clouds replaced (edit to clarify: instead of lots of little things and people hosting out of their closets, things solidified into major data centers to host VPCs)? Do you feel bad for the sysadmins virtual private servers replaced? Do you feel bad for the webmasters WordPress replaced?
  Note it’s totally possible to feel bad for all these folks and the template designers. My point is not whataboutism, it’s just that things that sell well as internet services have been changing constantly since the late nineties.
  
  Sure, why not.