Post by @Tutanota@mastodon.social

2026-10-30 10:01 UTC

@ipaschke@cyberplace.social @jab01701mid@mastodon.social @pyratebeard@harbour.cafe That's not what we said. But we want to be open and honest. Should we just test using AI and keep silent about it? That's definitely not the way we'd do things. Actually, for us it's great to have this discussion with everyone. We definitely want to do things better than Big Tech, and we'll continue to strive for it, also by listening to you guys and your feedback,so thanks! :) Possibly Hanna's comments here are also of interest to you: https://reddit.com/r/tutanota/comments/1ximsy2/dear_ceo_of_tuta/

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@pyratebeard@harbour.cafe 2026-10-30 10:12

@Tutanota@mastodon.social @ipaschke@cyberplace.social @jab01701mid@mastodon.social yes you should be open and honest. the issue you have uncovered is that some of your customers don't want you to even test using ai. i understand the predicament, i have been battling my personal stance on ai for a while. seeing people i trust use it and knowing i could probably build and finish some of the apps i don't have time to work on is very tempting. yet there are too many moral & ethical issues with using ai, i'd be ashamed i didn't stand against it

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@ipaschke@cyberplace.social 2026-10-30 10:25

@Tutanota@mastodon.social @jab01701mid@mastodon.social @pyratebeard@harbour.cafe I don't really care if you use AI internally. The huge red flag is: "We want to use AI to add features to compete with google." It's all too easy to add new features with AI. But it's another thing to test, debug, maintain and support all those new features. As a small company, you're almost guaranteed to lose focus and just be another mess of a Temu google clone instead of being a top tier email provider that cares about privacy and security.

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@synnef@woof.tech 2026-10-30 11:30

@Tutanota@mastodon.social @ipaschke@cyberplace.social @jab01701mid@mastodon.social @pyratebeard@harbour.cafe there was quite a stir on fedi but i think it's admirable that you're willing to have a proper, civil discussion about it with your users, as privacy nerds what we care about the most is stability and security, that you're transparent about llm usage if there is any and that it doesn't compromise what made you cool in the first place :neocat_floof: i will always be fundamentally against commercial llm ecocide and tech/cognitive debt, i do not think there's a way to "responsibly" use them like many FOSS projects claim :neocat_flop__w:

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