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  • XLE@piefed.socialEnglish
    751·
    24 hours ago

    Kit was created by a team of people, not generated by AI. And Kit isn’t an AI assistant or a chatbot.

    Glad they cleared that up right away. The only mentions of AI are practically apologies, which is a good sign. I guess bullying works.

    In the end, we agreed that Kit isn’t a fox nor a red panda. Kit is a Firefox, its own creature — with attributes from both a fox and a red panda, and perhaps a little fire magic.

    This feels like it’s for the kind of demographic that the platonic ideal of Firefox should represent.

  • zener_diode@feddit.org
    651·
    23 hours ago

    To all the people who read neither the article, nor the other comments pointing it out:

    This is NOT an AI chatbot!

    And I think it’s a great idea! And Kit looks cute!

    Maybe Mozilla finally noticed that most Firefox users are not all that enthusiastic about AI and would rather see development on other parts of Firefox.

  • Daniel Quinn@lemmy.caEnglish
    8·
    17 hours ago

    I want Kit stickers for my laptop. I will pay for them. Mozilla please take my money and give me adorable stickers.

  • ByteMe@lemmy.world
    19·
    20 hours ago

    I like this. Let’s make the internet a bit more fun again, everything is cold and soulless nowadays

    • Statick@feddit.onlineEnglish
      3·
      17 hours ago

      Yeah this is great. KDE has had Konqi and Katie forever. I like that Firefox is getting it’s own mascot as well.

      • AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip
        3·
        16 hours ago

        I absolutely LOVE their modern designs. The early Konqi 3D model design was just straight up ugly, IMO.

  • Ananace@lemmy.ananace.dev
    511·
    1 day ago

    I’m really happy to see a piece of news about “… your companion for …” and it not being about yet another soulless LLM chatbot.

    • qyron@sopuli.xyz
      28·
      1 day ago

      I understand the reference and know the source, so I’ll second you on that.

      But… It was K.I.T.T.

    • chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world
      5·
      20 hours ago

      This isn’t an AI. Kit is just the name of their redesigned mascot. They literally said in the article that it wasn’t designed with AI and isn’t an AI chatbot.

    • 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.world
      3·
      23 hours ago

      as much as llms suck. if I had the money, I’d restore a 1982 Pontiac firebird and it an llm with a voice model based on kit. that can control the infotainment and had access to the car’s odb and other functions.

      all running on a gpu inside the car. using a local model

      • LurkingLuddite@piefed.socialEnglish
        2·
        18 hours ago

        If it’s a locally running model trained from ethically sourced data, you’d already be doing better than 99.9% of the piece of shit techbro CEOs out there even if it barely could turn the radio on…

  • fuzzyfirefox@lemmy.world
    7·
    19 hours ago

    At one point, we asked ourselves whether or not Kit should look more like a red panda (leading to a brief detour into red panda references).

    In the end, we agreed that Kit isn’t a fox nor a red panda. Kit is a Firefox, its own creature — with attributes from both a fox and a red panda, and perhaps a little fire magic.

    Just my 2 cents, but since Red Pandas are endangered, I would have preferred that the made Kit a Red Panda.

  • lime!@feddit.nu
    9·
    24 hours ago

    i miss the cute animal sketches they used on error pages a few years ago. like the confused little dinosaur with the map.