Okay, so the CEO of Proton didn’t pass your purity test, I get it. But you know which CEOs also suck? The CEO of Google and the CEO of Microsoft. How can we expect secure and private alternatives to these ecosystems to flourish if we are constantly engaged in infighting? We will get nowhere if we reject every service that is short of perfect. Let’s keep our eyes on the bigger picture here.

Another hot take: I suspect that at least some of the hate directed at Proton is a smear campaign by some state actor who wants to see private online platforms fail.

  • tottle@lemmy.caOPEnglish
    422·
    3 days ago

    If you want to disavow every piece of tech using AI then good luck to you. You’d have to say goodbye to Linux and FreeBSD for starters, so you literally won’t have an operating system.

    • BluescreenOfDeath@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      3 days ago

      As a consumer, it is my right to vote with my wallet.

      I do not like this big AI push across all markets, and I am concerned about the long term consequences of AI usage.

      Sure, AIs can write code, but unless we’re going to implicitly trust the output of a machine that is going to hallucinate at some point. The reason why computers name so important across the board is because they’re repeatable. You give a computer program the same inputs, you’ll always get the same outputs.

      AI doesn’t have that consistency. It’s been shown that hallucinations are a mathematical certainty, so someone has to be able to read and understand the output of an AI.

      But if we’re no longer hiring entry level positions for writing code, opting instead to have AI be the junior developer, then we will run out of people who can check the work of an AI.

      I will not support a company that can’t see the long term security implications of relying on AI to write anything at all, and the CEOs comments about ‘fast and secure’ tell me that he doesn’t care about those implications.

      Mark my words, companies that become too reliant on AI will suffer from their AI usage. When another company owns the expertise you need to run your business, they’ll make sure you’re paying as much as possible for it. Because they have what you need.