If you missed it, 404 Media obtained internal messages and an AI manifesto from Proton, where employees told us that they're operating under a culture of fear. They say, that starts with CEO Andy Yen.
https://www.404media.co/manifestos-fear-and-loser-thinking-inside-protons-ai-reckoning/
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@404mediaco he walked it back, didn't he?
Not saying all is well in Proton by any stretch, but...
@404mediaco Proton is obviously going off the rails on the money train. Didn’t they pull out of Mastodon and only post on Reddit because they couldn’t control the messaging here and were getting a lot of pushback when Yen was supporting Trump?
I also don’t care if other companies think the AI manifesto was standard operating procedure. I don’t need endless growth from Proton products and I don’t want them prioritizing AI slop over security testing or handcrafted code - especially not if the employees (the ones with the actual knowledge- not the CEO) are obviously making that decision and getting pushback because someone removed from the product and focused on different priorities than security (i.e. revenue) is pushing them to do otherwise.