this post was submitted on 08 Dec 2025
534 points (94.5% liked)

Technology

77084 readers
3078 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
technopagan@lemmy.world
L4s@lemmy.world
L3s@hackingne.ws
L4s@hackingne.ws
534
Mozilla’s Betrayal of Open Source: Google’s Gemini AI is Overwriting Volunteer Work on Support Mozilla (www.quippd.com)
submitted 3 days ago by yoasif@fedia.io to c/technology@lemmy.world
103 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] watson@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The rot has set in. There’s no getting it out, now.

[–] tux0r@feddit.org 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The rot has set in in 2017.

[–] watson@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You may have misunderstood me: when I said “the rot has set in” I was referring to the end point. “The rot has set“ would refer to the beginning point.

It is a confusing way of speaking (which I only employed for style), and our collective confusion is a great example of why we don’t speak this way anymore. Lol.

[–] tux0r@feddit.org 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I see. Not a native speaker here, but working on it! Sorry.

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago

Native speaker here, and that's the first time I've ever heard such a distinction. Nothing on Google seems to back it up either, so take the asshole's explanation with a grain of salt.