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Multiple readings Proton’s CEO Cancels AI ‘Re-Interviews’ Concern & critique · 3 attributable reactions
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Proton CEO cancels AI re-interviews

Proton’s CEO Cancels AI ‘Re-Interviews’

7 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Opportunity & adoption reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Lori Emerson
“it is distinctly starting to feel the same as "Oh I Keep Picking The Wrong People to Be My Friends"..."Stop thinking always of how to be slower, and focus more on how to be faster...stop lovingly handcrafting all our code and use AI more." www.404media.co/p…” evidence ↗
7 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Emily M. Bender 404 Media Joseph Cox Sarah T Roberts, PhD Sam Cole Lori Emerson Veni Kunche
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Concern & critique

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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“The move came after 404 Media published an investigation into how Proton CEO Andy Yen was aggressively pushing AI across Proton despite security concerns and the culture of fear he has created.”

Markets & investment

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Capital, companies and commercial impact.

“New: Proton CEO Andy Yen just cancelled the company's 're-interviews'. Comes after our investigation yesterday The re-interviews would have been about how workers were using AI, with the clear implication you might be fired "He has a rebellion on his hands.…”

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New capabilities, benefits and practical upside.

“it is distinctly starting to feel the same as "Oh I Keep Picking The Wrong People to Be My Friends"..."Stop thinking always of how to be slower, and focus more on how to be faster...stop lovingly handcrafting all our code and use AI more." www.404media.co/p…”

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6 experts · 30 posts · 1d ago
Mar Hicks e.w. niedermeyer VE, cybersocial occult investigator Anthony Moser tweety fish Amy Hoy
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“I think this is one of the huge x-factors... I see kids with standalone cameras and tape players and stuff and wonder if Disco Stu might be projecting those adoption numbers a little too aggressively” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Questions & unknowns · 2 Concern & critique · 1 Research & technical analysis · 1
e.w. niedermeyer: AI slop is a supply side game-changer, so it's easy to focus there, but ultimately everything comes down to demand: will the public, in aggregate, be satisfied with slop or demand more? skeptics ha…
e.w. niedermeyer: covering cars you have to separate your personal taste from what the market demands, and that's hard when it comes down to something like slop restaurant menus... I find them viscerally off-putting…
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6 experts · 16 posts · 1d ago
Luke Stark Lilian Edwards Adam L Mary Branscombe Matt Darling Singularity's Bounty e/cc
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“Surely its the hippy summer of love vibe. Which is after post war optimism and before early 70s oil crash depression ( in every sense)” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 2 Research & technical analysis · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Matt Darling: Just like @liberalcurrents.com tbh.
Luke Stark: the thing i come back to, over and over--which stuff like LOWER DECKS got, and so much other latter-day trek has forgotten--is that the whole idea of trek is that they exist in a genuinely horrifyi…
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3 experts · 5 posts · 1d ago
critical slop studies austin Singularity's Bounty e/cc
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“💯 ironically later at another job I beefed up the system's financial internal accounting (working closely with business) and unlocked important functionality But for me it was a lot of memorization…” evidence ↗
critical slop studies: actually would be hilarious if zitron turned out to be on anthropic's payroll
austin: if the universe was funnier most of the most obnoxious anti-AI voices would be controlled oppo
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