I am LOVING Proton’s new AI, Lumo! Are there any concerns I need to take with Proton as a company? Heard something recently about them getting fashy.

  • utopiah@lemmy.ml
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    3 days ago

    Well what I don’t love is that it’s not open source. The interface is open-source, and it’s definitely an important step, but the actual “AI” or LLM and the backend it uses https://proton.me/blog/lumo-security-model is not.

    That’s unfortunate because other open source project that use “AI” (quotes here because the term is… it’s just not intelligence but anyway) like Immich, even though focusing on another topic (namely images) could benefit from that for https://github.com/immich-app/immich/tree/main/machine-learning

    So… I’m a Proton client, Visionary for years, and I do NOT like AI… but if they absolutely mush shove it down my throat at least :

    • be open source with the whole toolchain
    • tell me which models are used
    • tell me how the datasets for models were collected
    • tell me how much energy it users

    otherwise I will assume something under is not right.

    Overall it feels like Proton has great intention but more and more uses the excuse of privacy to keep secret that are unfortunately detrimental to individual users and the privacy community overall.