I have been a Zorin user since version 10. I'm kind of disturbed by some distros adding AI to the operating system. Does Zorin devs plan on adding AI to future releases of Zorin? If so, I'll have to find another distro but I really hope you guys won't go down that very destructive path. Modern AI is not the AI of science fiction everything thinks we are getting. Modern AI is a poor mimic that often gets facts totally wrong and should not be allowed anywhere near our home computers.
The last statement I read from the ZorinGroup directly stated that they have no intention nor plans to inject A.I. into Zorin OS.
The current consensus is that A.I. is a tool that End Users may freely choose whether to use or not on their own.
Well said.
Modern A.I. is most commonly a learning model that can mimic the appearance of human speech, but unable to think or rationally question the validity of answers.
Summary
A trait it shares with many humans.
I notice that some web browsers are now using A.I. to perform their spellchecking - and the spellcheck is getting a lot wrong. And I do mean A Lot. It misses clearly misspelled words and even offers misspellings as corrections due to it basing its model off of popular mis-speech.
For example: Offering loose
instead of lose
.
I think I may have missed this... which ones?
Google Chrome does it. The Enhanced SpellCheck
option uses Gemini A.I. for its spellchecking.
A user in Ungoogled Chrome or Google Chrome or similar based browsers that have it can revert to the basic spellcheck
... that works... By navigating to Settings > Language > Spellcheck
This is set to "Default On" for Google Chrome users, arriving in Updates to Chrome.
(The power of Defaults.... again).
While in there, Google Chrome users also might look at the Experimental A.I.
tab which... so helpfully... offers to help manage your Browsing History....
to send data to google
Fortunately not. Which is good in my Opinion. I wouldn't find it good when they would do it.
In Addition to @Aravisian's Comment about Browsers: In Firefox are AI Settings, too. When You are in the Settings, You have at the left side the Menu Point ''Firefox Labs''. There You have that. It should be by default off.
It is only an Information. You could take a Look there and control it:
In the new Version 135 it can come active by default I've read. But in my Case after Firefox was updated to Version 135 today there wasn't a Change.
The Zorin brother's are smart guys, they are not going to do something utterly stupid, like adding AI of any sort, to the core of their OS, thats just inviting trouble.
Now there's a new AI player in town called Deep Seek. Guess who owns it? China! Guess what China is doing with Deep Seek? Yep, mining your data!
Its a tool to compete against ChatGPT. I was watching a video of someone using it, and while the AI responses I felt were better then ChatGPT, it still got things wrong sometimes.
And if you ask it a lot of questions, eventually DeepSeek times you out after 50-responses. What a load of garbage! What if I was a kid in school, who needed to ask it a lot of questions for study?
Well, sorry kid, you are SOL, you get 50, and 50 only, no bargan. Well, schools got a in school ban on the usage of AI, due to student misuse anyways so ya lol.
Well ... that make other AI Tools too without being owned by China.
Mine was on by default in 134. >_<
Thank you for the info sir! Much appreciated!
Assalamu Alaikum, hi!
Adding AI would not be bad, unless it hampers the smooth performance Zorin OS offers. I heard Deepin having an AI like MS Copilot (uOS AI I guess) into it, however I heard the OS is pretty laggy.
Deepin has AI but not an own one. It is more an Interface where You can add an AI ChatBot. Without that, it would not run.
Thanks to Zorin being open, even if it was added you could always remove it anyways.