Proton Pitches Privacy-Protecting AI Assistant Lumo
Proton said it’s adding a privacy-respecting AI assistant called Lumo to its email service. “With no logs kept and every chat encrypted, Lumo keeps your conversations confidential and your data fully under your control -- never shared, sold, or stolen,” Proton blogged Wednesday.
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Proton said it doesn’t make money selling users’ data -- and it won’t use Lumo conversations to train its large language model.
“AI opens the door to new opportunities but also new forms of data collection,” said Proton said. “Today, hundreds of millions of ordinary people interact with AI tools, unwittingly handing over sensitive information that is far more intimate than search or browsing history. Businesses, too, are risking their secrets.”
“And because alternatives for generative AI have so far been limited, we all have to take our chances with AI companies that are mostly owned and operated out of the US or China,” added the Switzerland-based company on the same day that the White House announced an AI Action Plan (see 2507230058). “Lumo is here to change all that.”