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"If an organization runs a survey in 2024 on whether it should get into AI,
then they’ve already bodged an LLM into the system and they’re seeing if they
can get away with it.
Proton Mail is a privacy-focused email service. It’s the level of privacy
service that privacy obsessives recommend to their friends.
Proton Mail ran a user survey two months ago. They found some readers saying
they were “interested in AI,” didn’t include a “hell no” option, and today,
they’ve introduced Proton Scribe, claiming that “interested in AI” constituted
user demand for this specific feature!
Proton Scribe is a AI writing assistant for Proton Mail’s enterprise customers
— who give them vastly more money than their original base of privacy-focused
users do. The enterprise users very much want to press a button to write those
emails that they didn’t want to write and the recipient didn’t want to read.
The trouble is that Proton has announced and implemented Scribe in a manner
that sends up huge red flags for their privacy-focused techie base — who now
wonder if ProtonMail is still safe enough to recommend to their non-techie
friends."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
