Proton’s CEO Cancels AI ‘Re-Interviews’
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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.

Just one day after 404’s piece on Proton CEO Andy Yen’s AI psychosis, and much public sneering of the matter… those pending ‘re-interviews’ on staff’s submission to slop apparently won’t be happening. But Yen is still an all-in slopbro, so.

  • polakkenak@feddit.dkEnglish
    55·
    7 days ago

    Keep cancelling your renewals for anything proton. It’s absolutely a metric they are closely monitoring. The sooner you do, the stronger the signal it sends that the CEO is the problem

    • Bev's Dad@lemmy.caEnglish
      25·
      7 days ago

      Right? The interviews were the least of the new problems. I know I’m not going back unless he’s completely out and even then… Once I’m done migrating it’ll be hard to make me come back.

      • warm@kbin.earth
        15·
        7 days ago

        The longer they take to actually do something, the more users they permanently lose.

      • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
        2·
        5 days ago

        support mail, “hi I was considering using your service but on learning about your CEO’s shitty views have decided to take my money elsewhere”

  • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zipEnglish
    54·
    7 days ago

    We didn’t just shame them, we hit them in the wallet.

    When I canceled my account, the cancel interface showed typical signs of being overwhelmed with the traffic it was experiencing.

  • TinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systemsEnglish
    231·
    6 days ago

    Meanwhile, over on reddit, Proton has launched a bot-assisted astroturfing campaign to refute the spreading narrative. It takes the form of a missive from a “staff engineer” who’s shocked and angry at how much his dear CEO has been clipped out of context.

    In the first 10 minutes after the post went live, it had dozens of comments from posters saying things like, “Wow! Thank you for the truth!”

    Five hours later the post’s upvote counter is over 3k.

    Totally fake PR damage control.

    • bluecario@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      Reddit is one big psyop. I fear that as Lemmy’s profile grows, the same thing will happen here. Seems to me the only way to fight it is to protest IRL.

  • capital5@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    24·
    7 days ago

    Worthless maneouver at this point, the mask is off already. The guy has exposed his extreme toxicity, nobody (employees or customers) will trust him again.

    Which is embarrassing. When you’re the CEO of the upstart, you have to have as spotless of an image as possible. He clearly isn’t cut out for the job. Not that it matters anymore, Proton may very well be toast at this point.