That’s a good quote, I know she didn’t mean it this way, but it made me think of LLM chatbots. They have no substance beyond their power to convince. They’re basically pure marketing machines.
Funny you say that because at the end of the article she talks about how they are definitely not implementing an AI chatbot and calls out some other companies that have.
Ha! That’s on me for not reading until the end, thanks for that.
“Say that the Spanish government was forcing us to choose between undermining encryption in a way that would pollute Signal and making it dangerous for everyone, or leaving the market. That means everyone in the world who has a contact in Spain they need to talk to, they could no longer communicate. If the choice were between undermining encryption, undermining our privacy promises in a way that harmed anyone who use the Signal network, or leaving a market, we would leave a market in a heartbeat,” she explains.
Spain has a lot of these types of brain dead big brother policies. They are also big fans of chat control and seem to generally hate personal privacy.
$10 a month. I am always happy to see it deducted.
It 100% went downhill after the initial fund ran out and they implemented monetisation schemes
