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Chrome looks set to ship an LLM Prompt API to the web platform. At Mozilla, we oppose this API. We feel it has a large interoperability risk, and Google imposing T&Cs on a web API sets a dangerous precedent. Full details: github.com/mozilla/stan...

1. "Calcifying around a single model". Make it pluggable like search. 2. "To use the prompt API you must acknowledge Google's Generative AI Prohibited Uses Policy.". Yeah that's very bad. 3. "Overstated web developer position". Come on. Let's not create another iPhone moment for the web.

For #1, you still have the situation where the developer doesn't know what model they're talking to, so the problem isn't solved. For #3, I think it's important to show good evidence for claims like this.

I was at Mozilla when the iPhone launched. Seemed obviously disruptive, but all I heard was "too expensive", "doesn't have a keyboard", "show good evidence for claims like this". But evidence is always backwards-looking. We missed the train, then spent a decade and a half trying to catch up to apps.

Yeah, it's fucking obviously bigger and more important and all connecting by far.

It's just so fucking petty that you would bank so hard on refusing & denial & naysaying that you would prevent everyone else on the web from even trying, at all. That's so fucking conservative. So fucking anti-progressive, banking only on politics of fear & no, to stand against maybe possibly.