TL;DR: Mozilla’s translation bot on Support Mozilla (that is currently overwriting user contributions is based on the closed source, copyright infringing LLM, Google Gemini. This is in spite of Mozilla claiming that they are at the forefront of open source AI, and belies their exhortations to choose to build open source AI and data sets. Although Mozilla has experience in attracting open contributions for data sets in projects like Common Voice, Mozilla is using a closed data set to overwrite open contributions. Since (paid) Gemini queries do not train the model, Mozillians can expect to correct errors every time the bot automatically updates an article.

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    1 day ago

    Agreed, you should be allowed to have your opinion on all things! I think the important thing is whether or not the person actively tries to turn/force others to its own beliefs. If they do, they should be boycotted - like Elon, who actively tries to force his nazi and corp views on others, therefore I don’t buy Tesla or use X.

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      21 hours ago

      That’s a great point. That falls under “does the project harm anyone?”. I agree with you. I, too, won’t buy a Tesla.