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Proton Mail goes AI, security-focused userbase goes ‘what on earth’ (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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we appear to be the first to write up the outrage coherently too. much thanks to the illustrious @self

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (5 children)

I went to Proton for the explicit reason I didn't want Google scanning all my docs. Glad I moved away from them now, hopefully Fastmail doesn't do the same.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (4 children)

It's a local model running in your browser though

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Doesn't sound like it

Your prompt — that is, the email you’re writing — is kept in plain text on their server

Besides, I just don't want AI in general, is that too much to ask? I wonder how long it will be until there are companies actively promoting their lack of AI.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I wonder how long it will be until there are companies actively promoting their lack of AI.

Its already happening, to some extent, but not mainly among the big corps. Grabbing some random examples I could find:

Cara blew up a few weeks ago off the back of Instagram going all-in on AI
Glaze and Nightshade earned a lot of popularity by offering means to sabotage them
Dove also made waves by directly taking shots at AI, too
Nintendo publicly eschewed using it, stating they're focused "delivering value that is unique to Nintendo and cannot be created by technology alone".
Newgrounds put the hammer down early on AI, but more publicly disavowed it alongside adding an option to flag something as AI-made in March this year
Last, but not least, Beth Spencer cooked up a quick-and-dirty "Made with Human Intelligence" badge which has since blown the fuck up online

I'm probably missing some examples, but I think my point's made.

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