Commit to remaining free of any and all AI tools
Proton, so far, has been a bastion of "the Internet we actually wanted". This is why it was so disheartening to see that the company is now seriously considering integrating GenAI into its suite of tools.
As the tide of big tech moves toward forcing AI tools into the face of every user, the existence of a platform that is explicitly not doing this is a breath of fresh air. There is no reason to "innovate for the sake of innovation". Let your competitors waste their time and energy being late to the party with the 80th, 90th, and 100th AI tools to come to market.
Beyond the user experience, there is a plethora of moral reasons to avoid this AI plague:
- The mass exploitation of human labour used to tag inputs for these models
- The environmental effects of generating power used to train them
- The obscene amount of fresh drinking water diverted toward cooling
- The degradation of information quality, as the human knowledge encoded in language is substituted with statistical approximations
Please, reconsider this. It's been refreshing to use a platform that wasn't mindlessly chasing big tech trends, and to lose that now would give me an extremely disappointing reason to go searching once again for alternatives.
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Sara
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I was really hoping Proton would be able to keep it's head cool and stay out of this most recent VC cash-grab. But apparently we can't just have nice things. Having to find another email provider would be a pain so please just don't.
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Kevin McKaig
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"The Next Big Thing" is catnip for VC, but it's results are poor or outright fake. Please waste exactly zero hours of development on this nonsense and keep Proton excellent.
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Brian Vaughan
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I am deeply concerned about the use and abuse of generative AI. A great deal, perhaps most, of the knowledge and culture we have amassed in recent decades exists primarily in digital form. And concentration in the information technology means that a few corporations control access to that data. Small groups of all kinds, including political activists, are dependent on corporations for storing their publications. Those same corporations are now spending enormous resources on LLMs and related technology, technology which by its nature cannot be made secure or reliable. The threat to confidentiality and integrity of data is immense, and we could face the destruction of knowledge and culture on an unprecedented scale. It is of the utmost importance that any organization that can push back against this do so, and that begins with a firm "NO" to the use of generative AI.
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Shahaan
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I agree 100%.