Proton Mail goes AI, security-focused userbase goes ‘what on earth’ - eviltoast

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

    • David Gerard@awful.systemsOPM
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      4 months ago

      it was acausally enabled before you clicked on it, for your comfort and convenience, like the new ad tracker built into Firefox 128

    • self@awful.systems
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      4 months ago

      alternatively, if the only version of this that doesn’t break Proton’s e2e security model is the local-only version, maybe don’t ship the cloud hosted version of the feature under any circumstances

      I’d still hate the feature because the LLM model’s derived from plagiarized work and the labor of exploited workers from the global south, but this didn’t have to be a fucking privacy catastrophe