“Crazy fringe people” is literally who Proton was marketed to. Mainstream audience is perfectly fine with Gmail, if they piss off the “fringe” they’re pissing off their main userbase.

I mean, “@GamersNexus would this be something you’d like to cover” is a pretty clear giveaway that they wanted the story to blow up.

Yes, they should’ve done it anonymously, but I still think that was the point (I don’t see any other reason to post this otherwise)

The point was to post it to internet and expose what Samsung TVs do.

People not being able to reverse engineer the products they bought and find out privacy violations like the user in the screenshots did…?

There’s a fuckton of unethical and/or useless things people do with AI, but it’s not everything.

From what I understood it’s not really money “lost”, it’s that the company was valued a certain amount and, with a bit of that hype dying down, it’s now valued 80 Billion less.

I’m not an expert on… pretty much any argument in this thread though, so if someone more knowledgeable can chime in I’d appreciate too.

You have to start shifting the Overton Window from somewhere.