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

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I read the article. What is the problem?

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it’s an article about a poorly-designed feature that doesn’t accomplish any of its marketed goals and was hoisted upon Proton’s users in spite of their objections

this is an article about AI

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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.

Proton Mail’s privacy-focused users are worried about the Scribe announcement because they’ve never seen Proton be so vague and nonspecific about security and threat models.

Up to now, Proton has been serious about privacy

It’s not about AI. It’s about privacy and communication.

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oh. perhaps you could explain this to the authors of the article?

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fucking incredible, you managed to cherry pick some of the few sentences in the article that don’t use the words “AI” or “LLM”! good for you, you exhausting motherfucker

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“unencrypted text prompts”

can’t tell if this is because bond movies or marvel movies or fatf movies or heist movies or … but good god some people just have no fucking idea whatsoever

the model execution environment can quickly solve FHE in an afternoon, for a treat. after that it has to get back to piano practice tho!

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their self reported system requirements to run the local LLM don’t sound like the average office dell spec (sorry for using screenshots)

and the “opt in” flow appears to make no effort to explain the critical privacy difference between local and server llms

https://proton.me/support/proton-scribe-writing-assistant#system-requirements

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