Did they propose a specific alternative (non-extension) API?
replyWhy would they? This is an issue put up on the "standards-position" repo. They requested a position on a proposed standard, and Mozilla gave it.
replyThere’s one obvious alternative:
reply fetch("https://api.openai.com/v1/chat/completions", { ... });Right and that means people have to send their data to an external service.
replyGive it X months (or years??) and people will realize this is actually a privacy/data autonomy issue.
It's just dominated right now by the anti-AI/anti-technology sentiment in the west. That will gradually go away as more people use AI and robotics and realize how wrong they were about it.
No, that’s not how this process usually happens.
replyWhy would they need to?
replySo I guess the question would be, "What makes this acceptable Tech". I don't know how you get there without offering some type of "Search" like choice for open models. We all know how that turned out.
replyMaybe Mozilla can save itself by getting paid to serve Google's model as default rather than another providers. Would replace the revenue stream they lost.