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AI insights, screenshot here.
It's probably feeding the page or selection context into, if their other behavior is any indicator, ChatGPT on your behalf. (And when Mozilla tried to push that on developers, they hated it.)
I've looked through the Mozilla blog post about the sidebar, but for some reason they don't mention it, including when people ask.
Mozilla has been obsessed with AI. Between all their investments and their purchase of a trend-chasing AdTech company, FakeSpot.
On a post by the FakeSpot founder about AI:
According to a semi-hidden post by the same guy, FakeSpot was also trying to get into NFT shilling:
And before all that? Figuring out how to scrape data better.
Ah Mozilla.