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Proton Mail goes AI, security-focused userbase goes ‘what on earth’ (pivot-to-ai.com)
submitted 5 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 5 months ago

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 5 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 5 months ago

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

[-] earthquake@lemm.ee 9 points 5 months ago

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 5 months ago

I bet they go to react conferences

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 9 points 5 months ago

snrk

brava.

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