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Hi everyone,

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.

Proton Team

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (9 children)

This is the right way to do it. Kudos!

/Visionary

[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 months ago (8 children)

The negative, since I couldn't see it:

Chromium-based browser. Support for the Proton Mail desktop app will come at a later date.

Is it technically not possible on Firefox? I would've expected a large overlap between caring-about-privacy and not-running-chromium amongst your customers :/

[–] federino 11 points 4 months ago

yeah, I'm a non-chromium user

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