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Email is one of the best communication protocols humanity has ever invented. Do you want to give Meta the keys to all your communications? Or Slack, who sends
by kylehotchkiss 2y ago
Email is one of the best communication protocols humanity has ever invented.
Do you want to give Meta the keys to all your communications? Or Slack, who sends them off to AI training models?
- samus 2y agoThe major feature of email, federation, is also it's biggest weakness. Rhese days, most emails travel between Microsoft, Gmail, Yahoo, and a few others, and they are in an arms race with spammers. Smaller providers have increasingly trouble keeping up with that fight and with the measures of the big providers because they can be out of business quite quickly if they relay spam and the major providers stop trusting them. Monopolization is also happening in that space.
- edent 2y agoGoogle and Microsoft probably already have the keys to 90%+ of all email comms. They probably already use them to train AI. It is well known that the Enron emails were used to train early AIs * https://qz.com/work/1546565/the-emails-that-brought-down-enron-still-shape-our-daily-lives https://qz.com/work/1546565/the-emails-that-brought-down-enr... * https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~enron/ https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~enron/ But, if it is one of the best comms protocols, why then do people flock to WhatsApp, Slack, and other non-email products?
- n4r9 2y ago> why then do people flock to WhatsApp, Slack, and other non-email products? One reason is that corporations are extremely good at hijacking attention and stimulating addictive areas of the brain. There are various definitions of "best" here, ranging from "efficient" to "what people will flock to".
- quesera 2y ago> why then do people flock to UI and delivery latency. I think both are fixable but the latter is more difficult.