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They need to fire their CEO and get an executive suite that can develop good products and not just copy Google while adding keywords related to “privacy” and “freedoms” in their marketing copytext.
That’s the exact same thing as Google.
I say this as long time Proton user and subscriber.
I mean… Why not?
I want Gmail without Google. Protonmail sells that to me, seems like a win/win.
Same for other services.
I don’t think they can make a direct competitor. An LLM is expensive to run and getting a good LLM model requires lots of spend.
I like the idea of a private cloud LLM, but based on my experience with Mistral (an EU based LLM service), it is noticeably less useful than ChatGPT and especially Gemini for work use cases.
Bases on some basic test prompts (related to finding sources and documents related to specific parts of government budgets in different countries all around the world), Lumo did not perform well. Only some general suggestions for sources were provided.
It would be great to see Lumo improve, but I have my doubts.
They need to NOT have an LLM. Period. I want a light weight, inexpensive, security focused email/docs platform with zero AI.
Imo, having Proton just copy Google but actually be private is exactly what I want. Of course, if they stray away from privacy then there will be issues. I also feel like they are making good stuff. As a subscriber myself I don’t have many issues with their offering other than the stuff they don’t provide but Google does.
They’ll never do it. They’ve proven they have no integrity and your data is too valuable.
I don’t believe they will be able to compete with Google/OpenAI in a direct battle by having a 1:1 LLM product copy but with privacy. The costs are likely too high for an organisation like Proton and their LLM is likely to have significantly subpar output.
Don’t get me wrong, I am all for a private, cloud LLM, but I would rather they came up with novel usbaility features, a better front-end for evaluating sources (and faster identification of errors and hallucinations) and so on.
I am not seeing any of that.
I don’t believe they will be able to compete with Google/OpenAI in a direct battle
I don’t know about that. From my experience, community AI models (both image generation and LLMs) are often far, far superior to whatever large corporations can dish out within the same size bracket
The difference is that Google scans your private correspondence and can report you to authorities for any reason, legit or not.
That’s a fair argument. Although I personally wouldn’t put too much emphasis on “can report you to authorities for any reason”. That’s true of any third party, your local mini-mart can report you to the authorities for any reason, legit or not.
I am referring more to the Lumo LLM initiative. It’s a standard LLM pitch with some privacy copytext added on.
While I haven’t tried Lumo, I do have experience with smaller cloud LLMs (e.g. Mistral, trying to not use American services) and they tend to be subpar for my work use cases.
I don’t see how Lumo will compete with ChatGPT or Gemini (haven’t tried Grok for obvious reasons).
Although I personally wouldn’t put too much emphasis on “can report you to authorities for any reason”
They literally sent police after some poor dude based on their correspondence with a doctor
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/08/googles-scans-private-photos-led-false-accusations-child-abuse
Agreed, that’s pretty fucked up.
However, on some level it’s to be expected that 3rd parties may report you if they feel you are engaging illegal activities (especially on their premises).
While I don’t support technological backdoors, there are legitimate for society to engage in surveillance. It’s the responsibility of voters to make sure that this is done in a responsible and transparent manner.
Google does not have the authority to “send the police”. They reported content that looked like CSAM and the police did what police do and assumed the guy was a criminal.
The problem is not that they reported it, the problem is that they had it in the first place.
Although I personally wouldn’t put too much emphasis on “can report you to authorities for any reason”. That’s true of any third party
Not true of Proton.
I don’t see how Lumo will compete with ChatGPT or Gemini
The same way it competes with all their other products; by making it private and open source.
Proton AI never makes sense in the first place.
Not a single soul asked for it, waste of company resources.
This is how I feel. I’m not really okay with the money I pay getting used to develop ML and crypto BS.
For those who didn’t read the article
“If the proposals pass, Proton’s services in Switzerland would be less private than Google’s,” Mr Yen told Le Temps. Frustrated by the lack of assurances from Beat Jans, the federal councillor overseeing the matter, Proton has opted to halt Swiss investments and shift its infrastructure plans abroad. Its artificial-intelligence data centres, deemed especially sensitive, will be located in Germany and Norway and involve investing CHF 100 million.
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Yeah Russia’s the only one who gets Proton data
Wrong bogeyman here, the more worrying problem is the CEO endorsing the US republicans, seemingly (and charitably) due to the ostensibly pro-privacy policy position, ignoring all the other policy advocation attached to endorsing them or their track record of doublespeak particularly around things like privacy.
Yeah I’m not buying any excuses. One supports trump, one gets the fuck out.
such a large statement with such little evidence
Sounds like something a RUSSIAN would say /s
Would you mind elaborating?
