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Mozilla adds stupid AI stuff with horrible T&C (lemdro.id)

submitted 11 months ago by astro_ray@lemdro.id to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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PSA (?): just got this popup in Firefox when i was on an amazon product page. looked into it a bit because it seemed weird and it turns out if you click the big "yes, try it" button, you agree to mandatory binding arbitration with Fakespot and you waive your right to bring a class action lawsuit against them. this is awesome thank you so much mozilla very cool

https://queer.party/@m04/112872517189786676

So, Mozilla adds an AI review features for products you view using Firefox. Other than being very useless, it's T&C are as anti-consumer as it possibly can be. It's like mozilla saying directly "we don't care about your privacy".

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[–] teolan@lemmy.world 22 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I have large doubts on an AIs ability to reliably spot fakes.

[–] legion@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

AI: "This is definitely a fake review because I wrote it."

[–] Xanis@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There are literal bots on Reddit with less complexity able to measure the likelihood of a story being reliable and truthful, with facts and fact checkers. They're not always right, they ARE useful though. Or were. Not sure about now, been over a year since I left.

[–] unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 months ago

Would you mind pointing me in the direction of those AIs since the newfangled factcheck bot seems to just pull its data from a premade database, so no AI here on Lemmy

[–] antihumanitarian@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

If by reliably you mean 99% certainty of one particular review, yeah I wouldn't believe it either. 95% confidence interval of what proportion of a given page's reviews are bots, now that's plausible. If a human can tell if a review was botted you can certainly train a model to do so as well.