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

submitted 4 months ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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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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[–] self@awful.systems 11 points 4 months ago (4 children)

god these weird little fuckers’ ability to fill a thread with garbage is fucking notable isn’t it? something about loving LLMs makes you act like an LLM. how depressing for them.

[–] pyrex@awful.systems 11 points 4 months ago

high willingness to accept painfully inexact responses
high tendency to side with authority when given no information
low ability to distinguish "how it is" from "how it seems like it should be"

Meta:

default expectation that others are the same way
indignant consent-ignoring gesture if they're not

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 10 points 4 months ago

"I said good day, sir. good day!" [walks through revolving door]

[–] earthquake@lemm.ee 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

To think that when sneer club/techtakes migrated to lemmy, I was pretty sure we would not be getting a lot of incidental traffic to the communities. Just about as wrong as you can be.

[–] fasterandworse@awful.systems 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I bet they go to react conferences

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 9 points 4 months ago

snrk

brava.