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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)
@self I wonder what āpopular demandā and āoverwhelming number of requestsā. Are there actually a lot of people asking for this? Are there more than there are people begging them not to? Maybe I just live in an anti-AI bubble, because I sure donāt encounter a lot of pro-AI views.
itās not just you ā I can dig up the posts if youāre curious, but Proton wrote their last user survey so it was impossible to say no to this LLM crap directly, and they still got caught massively fudging the numbers to make this needless bullshit look popular. I can promise you itās just the same people doing that again, except this time thereās no publicly accessible numbers they can be called out over
@self I can understand Microsoft and Google chasing this fad, but I would expect most of Protonās users to be exactly the type of person whoās against this. But of course itās easy to fudge with numbers.
thatās very true! unfortunately, weāve discovered that a lot of the foundational members of Protonās board and engineering team are huge LLM fans (and gigantic Bitcoin fans too ā thatās why Proton released a Bitcoin wallet, of all things, almost simultaneously with this LLM bullshit)
weāre not sure if something changed that suddenly made them go all in on their bad ideas, but the initial communication around Scribe was how much Protonās business users wanted it ā and the survey was very much crafted to get what looked like a pro-LLM response from that demographic. Proton has essentially admitted that theyāre doing this for their tiny number of enterprise whales rather than their normal privacy-conscious users; itās a shame theyāre willing to burn their business down for that kind of short-term gain. I can only imagine them enabling the LLM for all their paid accounts this quickly is either a desperation move because the feature didnāt do the numbers they hoped for, or itās a sign that Protonās otherwise compromised.
@self Itās probably the same folks who wanted the Bitcoin wallet.