cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/37149554
If you have an iPhone 15 Pro or later with iOS 26+, the summary is created on your device using Apple Intelligence. On other devices with earlier iOS versions, the page text is sent securely to Mozilla cloud-based AI, which creates the summary and sends it back.
Am I alone in thinking this doesn't suck? Like, I don't use ai summaries, but I do know people that do, and this is a pretty elegant way of doing it.
I'm OK with it existing, but it should be an addon. Not something that Mozilla pushes onto people who don't want it.
Silicon Valley has a consent problem, and Mozilla is no different.
Please don’t be reasonable on Lemmy, we hate that here.
I would know, given the people I have seemingly decided to argue with about bluesky.
Most things on the Internet are short and written for a 6th - 8th grade level, I think. You should be able to read them. Reading is a skill that needs practice. So is skimming. Plus, ai isn't always good at summaries .
It's weird to be like "git gud" about reading but come on. (Accessibility or translation are separate concerns, which may or may not benefit from LLM tooling)
Oh I agree, but like half of americans read under a sixth grade level. This is bad, but that's a big portion of people that will get use out of that feature.
I'm not sure if those people would read the summary. I think that person is watching a video instead. But maybe it would be helpful for them, as you say. It would be far, far, better to invest in public education than AI slop, but that doesn't seem to be in the cards.
edit: Also, most things have the most important bits in the opening paragraphs. Inverted pyramid and all that.
I completely agree, but sometimes info is only in article form, and mozilla can't run schools.
Also I wish the inverted pyramid model was still omnipresent, it feels like half the articles I read are meandering and don't spit out the most important info until it's mostly over.
That's probably because of advertising's dominance. If they can get you to scroll through the whole page that's so many more ad impressions! I wonder why original newspapers weren't so bad? Probably because you paid for it up front?
100% agree, the best news source I know of is Le Monde (I read it in french) and they charge upfront.
I think so, yes. I don't want features that are privacy invasive that will likely be turned on by default when they show up. I'd rather not have the worry that something in the background may be harvesting data to feed to a model somewhere. Were this an extension that needs to be installed independently in order to even be present, would i agree? Sure. As a "now this app has AI built in" feature? Absolutely not. I will keep avidly avoiding software which adds AI, whether it's something I use or not.
I get that, but I disagree, given the model runs on-device.
I do agree there should just be one toggle for AI features of the sort during setup though, it shouldn't just be preenabled for everyone.
The implementation is fine but it's the feature that people don't care for.
I mean, neither do I, but it's on-device and is activated by the user, so it's annoying at worst imo
Yes, that's fair.
Yes.
All I want to know is where's the off button for this garbage.
And people wonder why I don't let apps auto-update?
In the first place, you have to turn it on to use it: