Stop Forgetting It

Enzor-DeMeo says will offer users their choice of model and product, all in a browser they can understand and from a company they can trust. “We’re not incentivized to push one model or the other,” he says. “So we’re going to try to go to market with multiple models.”

As long as it doesn’t become something that is forcibly pushed in to everything I do with the browser and my actions on the browser aren’t available to the LLM they go with, which it sounds like it won’t be, I don’t care if an AI agent exists in the software I use. Though I do feel like the working hours for this could be used in a better way, I’d love to see PWA’s come to Firefox for Linux, as an example.

Honestly would love something like this for lemmy. On old reddit I had a enhancement suite script that tagged know bad actors so I could filter them out/add grains of salt. But instead of like on Bluesky where you subscribe to a list managed by someone else, I’d like a local filter that I can apply and won’t update until I update it.

AI bots use existing search engines to get results, it just that the results are now told to you like a conversation instead of a list of links. LLM bots are not search engines and these AI companies are not building search engine bots, they are LLM bots that generate predictive text based on already existing search engines that actually do the indexing. They wouldn’t work at all if it wasn’t for Google and Bing. The referral source may have changed but the SEO strategy is still the same.