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

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[+] Evotech -6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's not even in the consumer version. Also it's a optional local LLM running in your browser for basic stuff

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago (1 children)

though to be honest, the fact that you think this is local-only and only affects business accounts perfectly demonstrates how fucking dangerous Proton’s marketing and design around this feature is

[–] Evotech 5 points 5 months ago

Well, I run mistral at work in ollama and it's perfectly possible to run it and not log the prompts.

If you believe protonmail in that they can't decrypt your mail and that they don't log anything regarding mail, why would you not trust them on this?

I don't understand how you would think a provable privacy focused company would suddenly be not private just because the product has an optional ai compose feature?