In Proton’s 2024 user survey, it seems like AI usage among the Proton community has now exceeded 50% (it’s at 54% to be exact). It’s 72% if we also count people who are interested in using AI.
Rather than have people use tools like ChatGPT which are horrible for privacy, we’re bridging the gap with Proton Scribe, a privacy-first writing assistant that is built into Proton Mail.
Proton Scribe allows you to generate email drafts based on a prompt and refine with options like shorten, proofread and formalize.
A privacy-first writing assistant
Proton Scribe is a privacy-first take on AI, meaning that it:
Can be run locally, so your data never leaves your device.
Does not log or save any of the prompts you input.
Does not use any of your data for training purposes.
Is open source, so anyone can inspect and trust the code.
Basically, it’s the privacy-first AI tool that we wish existed, but doesn’t exist, so we built it ourselves. Scribe is not a partnership with a third-party AI firm, it’s developed, run and operated directly by us, based off of open source technologies.
Available now for Visionary, Lifetime, and Business plans
Proton Scribe is available as a paid add-on for business plans, and teams can try it for free. It’s also included for free to all of our legacy Proton Visionary and Lifetime plan subscribers. Learn more about Proton Scribe on our blog: https://proton.me/blog/proton-scribe-writing-assistant
As always, if you have thoughts and comments, let us know.
Fucking hell its exhausting trying to keep one step ahead of having this AI bullshit shoved into every service I use.
I’m not against AI. I’m just against it being embedded in literally everything. I
If I want to “consult” an AI to have it look at my code for syntax errors or something like that, I’ll go to its website and use it from there, accepting that yes… That particular bit of code or text is going to be scraped.
But the step from there to "always be reading everything I do is fucking massive.
Yeah that’s fair enough. But I have to say it’s still frustrating seeing everyone investing so much money on this exact same feature. I’m not sure we have had time to figure out how people use this, everyone is just frightened to be left behind.
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Fucking hell its exhausting trying to keep one step ahead of having this AI bullshit shoved into every service I use.
I’m not against AI. I’m just against it being embedded in literally everything. I
If I want to “consult” an AI to have it look at my code for syntax errors or something like that, I’ll go to its website and use it from there, accepting that yes… That particular bit of code or text is going to be scraped.
But the step from there to "always be reading everything I do is fucking massive.
You have to turn it on.
Yeah that’s fair enough. But I have to say it’s still frustrating seeing everyone investing so much money on this exact same feature. I’m not sure we have had time to figure out how people use this, everyone is just frightened to be left behind.
I hardly ever type emails anyway so it is almost useless to me 😂