Meet Orbit, Mozilla's AI Assistant Extension for Firefox
Orbit by Mozilla is a new AI-powered assistant for the Firefox web browser that makes summarising web content while you browse as easy as clicking a
I’m glad this is an add-on I can ignore…Mozilla hasn’t completely shotgunned the LLM koolaid.
Yeah. No thanks.
Just please don't make this compulsory.
I can understand the feature for "asking a question," since if you're looking at some gigantic paper, or something where specific information is scattered and you just don't want to scroll too much constantly searching for it, that could speed it up, but I can't for the life of me understand why you'd want to just summarize the content itself, presumably for the purpose of just shortening the read.
Most content you read is going to be long for a reason, usually because there's these little things called context and nuance in there. Shocking. And if the content you're reading is deliberately long and obtuse to gain more read time to keep your eyes on the ads... don't read that content.
Most content you read is going to be long for a reason
This is something all of those auto-summarizers neglect to mention. Sometimes long is good, and activates understanding in a way you won't get from a one-paragraph tl;dr version.
I wonder how Orbit would summarize this newsbyte? "Long is a bother. This better ❤️🤖"?
I wonder how Orbit would summarize this newsbyte?
I just tried it out of curiosity. It ignored your comment entirely (even when I specifically loaded just the page with the post, and only your comment beneath it) then explained what Orbit was (in a 2x longer string of text than the post description), then outlined what the lemmy community itself was about topic-wise.
And it took 15 seconds to do it.
Mozilla doing Mozilla things. The web really needs a real alternative to Google that isn't funded by it.