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Article: https://proton.me/blog/deepseek

Calls it "Deepsneak", failing to make it clear that the reason people love Deepseek is that you can download and it run it securely on any of your own private devices or servers - unlike most of the competing SOTA AIs.

I can't speak for Proton, but the last couple weeks are showing some very clear biases coming out.

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[-] Rogue@feddit.uk 13 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

For clarity the company did not explicitly support Trump. They simply stated negative things about the "corporate dems" and praised the new republican party.

[-] the_swagmaster@lemmy.zip 1 points 16 minutes ago

They didn't really praise them. They just hoped that the republicans would go back to being against big tech (like they used to be 10 years ago he claims). Obviously, Trump's not going to do that but I think we can all agree big tech is a big problem

[-] firadin@lemmy.world 37 points 17 hours ago

Ah my mistake, they didn't praise the fascist - just the fascist party. Big difference.

[-] Rogue@feddit.uk 4 points 16 hours ago

Exactly it's totally different.

And they never specifically praised the vice president they simply made some fucked up association that his attendance of an event meant he was on side contrary to pretty much every other indication that has ever been given.

[-] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 13 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)
[-] Rogue@feddit.uk 3 points 15 hours ago

You might want to direct that elsewhere

[-] sem 14 points 14 hours ago

You might not want to post apologia for a company defending a fascist party once, then doubling down, then trying to take it all back saying "it was a mistake to get political"

[-] Rogue@feddit.uk 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

You might not want to post apologia for a company defending a fascist party once, then doubling down, then trying to take it all back saying “it was a mistake to get political”

At no point did I state "it was a mistake to get political" that is a narrative entirely from your own imagination.

  1. I made a sarcastic response to the opening comment. People didn't notice the sarcasm. No worries my sense of humour isn't overly obvious and I refuse to litter \s marks everywhere so I'm not too bothered if my comments are misinterpreted at times.

  2. the opening commenter responds sarcastically.

  3. I respond with another comment that's absolutely dripping with sarcasm and even explicitly call out Proton's bullshit. Somehow people still don't note the sarcasm and yet they understood the firadin's comment was sarcastic, odd but again I'm not too bothered.

  4. Somebody implies I haven't understood a joke.

  5. I try to delicately suggest I've been misunderstood. Again, I'm not too bothered.

  6. Your response. Absolutely absurd.

At no point did I even defend the Nazis, at no point did I say or imply what you're quoting me as saying.

The most ridiculous thing is you accuse me of "apologia" on the same day I repeatedly call out the inappropriateness of Proton's stance because I got tired of reading so much "apologia":

The solace I do take from this is that at least people are aware of the insanity of the hill Proton have decided to die on.

[-] sem 2 points 6 hours ago

Proton said it was a mistake to get political in their "official statement" responding to their other "official statement"

[-] Rogue@feddit.uk 2 points 5 hours ago

Ah, thanks for clarifying that. I definitely misinterpreted what you said.

I'm not sure I've even read Proton's latest reply in full.

When I saw it on reddit I just got annoyed by all the boot licking comments saying variations of "thanks for being so transparent".

I'm unlikely to believe any post incident damage control from Proton. Their CEO caused irreparable damage to their reputation. The only resolution is to remove him from his post.

I'm tired of seeing people claiming that alternatives are probably just as bad. That's irrelevant. the alternatives haven't betrayed the faith users place in them. and given the scale and nature of Proton as an organisation it's entirely reasonable to expect a higher standard of them.

[-] TheUnicornOfPerfidy@feddit.uk 1 points 10 hours ago

But sarcasm. The response from Rogue was partially sarcastic.

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