“These re-interviews are consequential,” a leaked email seen by 404 Media reads.
  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Like is nothing private anymore?

    Proton has their own AI that they’re developing, which yes, is private. Presumably this is a big part of what they’re doing with their staff, and it makes sense, as they’re going to need people who know what they’re doing and not vibe coders if they don’t want people to hate what they’re making.

    Their model has to be private thanks to the laws of the country where they’re incorporated, but think of it like an AI version of Signal, where logs of your prompts and your data aren’t retained. The Swiss don’t fuck around with privacy, and I personally like that Proton doesn’t get to decide this. Every single AI model you’ve probably heard of doesn’t do this, either harvesting any data you put into it or destroying rare books and scraping the web illegally to train its models.

    The downer here is that Proton’s AI can’t do some of the things frontier AI can do, but for most users that’s not going to matter.

    None of that info makes for fun Reddit rage-baiting, so I’m guessing no one mentioned it. Also, it should be noted that you should never, ever load a file or a prompt into an AI that you wouldn’t want to become private, as servers can get compromised and data leaked.

    • stumu415@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      6 days ago

      For me personally, I have not used any AI product or service and trying my utmost to avoid any product or service where ‘AI’ scans my data. I use donotspy on my windows to stop all the shit that now comes with Microsoft as unfortunately my work requires a windows platform, Firefox because I can disable all that AI shit and have my extensions up and running.

      It is nothing more than an advanced version of ‘if… then… else’ except it gets it wrong 48% of the time.

      Today I had to find a new email client because EMclient also decided to add slop to their app.

      As much as I appreciate the warning about uploading any file to any AI client, never in my fucking life.

      • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        6 days ago

        Smart. Good on you for being mindful and taking appropriate precautions.

        I have a Windows/Linux dual-boot and keep anything requiring privacy on the Linux side. For Windows, I use O&O ShutUp, which is an application that allows a user to easily shut off all of Windows’ intrusive settings and delete Copilot.

        As for LLM’s, they’re my last resort for anything, and I only really use them if I can’t find the information I need on Mojeek or Marginalia-Search, not just for privacy’s sake but because I have an ideological problem with their vast energy use and the economic and environmental impact those applications have.

        But none of it’s foolproof, so I always just keep in the back of my mind before doing or saying anything online: Would I want this to go public?