Mozilla announces their new AI website builder, community reacts appropriately

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.

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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.

1. "The steam loom is going to put weavers out of work, industrialization is a double edged sword and needs to be carefully considered".

2. 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.

3. Mozilla is allowed to do more than one thing.

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.

It didn't work for the Luddites or any other group, getting angry at Mozilla won't save their jobs.

Even if they cancel the project, there's other services offering automated web dev.

The idea that we should hold back technology to artificially create work is absurd. Why not create millions of jobs by banning tractors? It's the same principle.

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?

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.)

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.

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