Guy explains to CEO of Signal (messaging) that it's going to add "AI" to the service. She says no. He insists, not knowing or caring who he's talking down to. : fuck

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 100 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This is almost as good as the jackass who tried to tell Margaret Atwood that "the woman who wrote that book was talking about Muslims, not Christians"

[–] aim_at_me@lemmy.nz 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That sounds good. Got a link?

[–] Nycto@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

https://www.spottednews.com/politics/whos-going-to-tell-him-man-explains-the-handmaids-tale-to-atwood/

[–] 50shadesofautism@lemmy.zip 70 points 9 months ago (3 children)

If the owner of signal commented in this thread I would have no idea lol

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 67 points 9 months ago (7 children)

There is no owner, it's a 501c3. Meredith is the CEO.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago

Double-secret

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[–] insaneinthemembrane@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

She posted with a "we" statement about her own company. If someone did that, you might think about who they are but this guy completely assumed she was a know nothing nobody.

https://bsky.app/profile/meredithmeredith.bsky.social/post/3lrqccvwnqs2z

[–] 0li0li@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Well now you would ;)

[–] 50shadesofautism@lemmy.zip 5 points 9 months ago

No lol

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[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge 9 points 9 months ago

That's why I embraced xmpp. I liked what Signal is doing, but I don't believe any company, or anyone that owns one.

It's why a lot of you are here lol

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[–] TheImpressiveX@lemmy.today 34 points 9 months ago (1 children)

!dontyouknowwhoiam@lemmy.world

[–] JustJack23@slrpnk.net 4 points 9 months ago

Thank you for that!

I have been laughing for the past hour.

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[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 44 points 9 months ago (2 children)

funny story, I insulted a Microsoft exec, to their face, because they introduced themselves as "working for Microsoft".

I told them in response, " Don't worry, I won't hold that against you." To which they asked, "What's that supposed to mean?" I said, "You work for them and don't even know? you certainly drank all the koolaide."

almost lost my job over that when my employer found out.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 26 points 9 months ago

If I found out I was talking down to a Microsoft exec when I thought I was talking to a regular employee, I'd double down.

[–] Gork@sopuli.xyz 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I would have told them to bring back Clippy 📎 as an AI companion, but inappropriately erotic. 👠

[–] biofaust@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

So...Cortana?

[–] Mniot@programming.dev 24 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I think key context is that the guy is representing himself as having special knowledge about what Signal is doing internally and what they'll do next.

It's not "you bump into some rando on the street. Don't you know she's CEO of Signal??"

It's "you're giving a Ted Talk about Signal. The woman in the front row offers a correction and you're like, 'shut up, dummy.'"

[–] insaneinthemembrane@lemmy.world 22 points 9 months ago (2 children)

He replied to her post about how signal won't use AI and she said "we". He 100% assumed a woman was a nobody so he paid no attention. This is all on him.

https://bsky.app/profile/meredithmeredith.bsky.social/post/3lrqccvwnqs2z

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[–] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I wonder if he would have done the same thing talking to a man...

[–] themoken@startrek.website 12 points 9 months ago

People are putting this on sexism or whatever, but I feel like this dude is just one of those confidently wrong people and would have said this to literally anyone disagreeing with him.

I am a man, and an expert in my field, and I get people trying to condescend semi-regularly because they think they can handwave the problems I get paid to solve. Just completely unfounded confidence.

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[–] mathemachristian@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 9 months ago (2 children)

And people still whinge about mansplaining not being a thing

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 9 months ago

What she doesn't realize is that he's secretly leading a coup from inside the company.

/joke

[–] ipitco@lemmy.super.ynh.fr 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

People will associate what you're saying with pretty much everything even if it doesn't make sense

Like how can one say that's mansplaining and not just a baseless thought? What guarantees that they only do this with women?

[–] frezik@midwest.social 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Why split hairs about what's going on rather than focusing on the fact that he talked down to a subject matter expert?

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[–] kepix@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

i remember them saying the app wont get certain featues, cause it just makes the whole thing less secure. even tho the dude only has the pattern recognition of a dead crow, i do have to add that no company should be trusted, BUT having an open source client is a good way to win me over. and as far as i can tell, the molly devs would purge the ai implementation crazy fuckin fast anyway.

[–] blazeknave@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

Didn't realize I clicked a link and wondered when the screenshot was going to end...

[–] dylanmorgan@sh.itjust.works 9 points 9 months ago

Also, even this suggestion betrays a lack of understanding about how signal works. A big part of the long term security signal offers is that they don’t store data, so LLM integration would be on-device.

Fuck AI