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I actually like some of the AI stuff in Mozilla.

I disabled the AI summaries, but the automatic translation support is very helpful. And I'd love to have automatic subtitles and/or translation support for videos.

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> the automatic translation support is very helpful.

It's great, and I love that it works fully on-device, i.e., it's as privacy-preserving as it gets.

Pretty sure i read that the translation is not AI (LLM) based

When I read posts like this I despair. I mean I can sort of understand that ML an AI have become largely synonymous, but that even on a technical website for nerds like HN, people now think that AI and LLMs are synonymous and that translation engines are not AI?!

AIUI, the AI-based translation models are based on the same transformer-oriented neural nets that LLMs are based on, just not quite writ as large. In other words, it's not entirely inaccurate to call these models LLMs.

While there's a lot of other AI technologies that aren't LLMs, automatic translation is probably the closest technology phylogenitically speaking.

It is AI-based, you can check the source code: https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-translations-models

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