Did they propose a specific alternative (non-extension) API?

▲ jedimastert 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Why 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.

▲ rafram 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

There’s one obvious alternative:

   fetch("https://api.openai.com/v1/chat/completions", { ... });

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ilaksh 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Right and that means people have to send their data to an external service.

Give 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.

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koutakun an hour ago | parent [-]

>Right and that means people have to send their data to an external service.

Nothing in this proposal claims it has to be a local AI. That just happens to be the implementation by Chrome and Edge (for now at least, I'd imagine Google will eventually start moving this API towards hosted Gemini).

	▲	ilaksh an hour ago \| parent [-]
		That's an important aspect of this that should really be part of the discussion on GitHub. But I've been told I'm not qualified to interject so I am not going to bother. I will use WebLLM if I want something like this (with local AI guaranteed).

▲ madeofpalk 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

No, that’s not how this process usually happens.

▲ aljaz823 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Why would they need to?