Signal's Moxie Marlinspike says his privacy-focused AI platform Confer will integrate its encryption tech into Meta AI to provide E2EE for chatbot conversations
Moxie Marlinspike says the technology powering his encrypted AI chatbot, Confer, will be integrated into Meta AI.
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Discussion
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@wcathcart
Will Cathcart
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Incredibly excited about this. People use AI in ways that are deeply personal and require access to confidential information. It's important that we build that technology in a way that gives people the power to do that privately.
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@matthew_d_green
Matthew Green
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So you've built an agent in a local model or a TEE that has access to all your private data. Now what? Does it sit there cogitating privately? Of course not: to be useful, it needs to do stuff. That ranges from simple stuff like search, to more complicated interactions.
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@matthew_d_green
Matthew Green
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A lot of people think the solution to “private AIs” is to just TEEs. This is already the approach being deployed by Meta, Apple and Google. I think that's important, but not really a solution. The problem is that for agentic AI, agents need to interact with the real world.
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@matthew_d_green
Matthew Green
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So all the hard parts are on that boundary between private and public. Or putting things differently (if you're a company supported by advertising), all the juicy parts are in getting the agent to export the valuable monetizable components without all the dreck.
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@petersterne
Peter Sterne
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If I had a nickel for every time Moxie Marlinspike developed a strong encryption protocol that Meta then made the default on its platform https://www.wired.com/...
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@a_greenberg
Andy Greenberg
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It's kind of weird that Meta didn't announce this. Seems like it could be a big deal, maybe one that pressures other AI companies to follow suit. https://www.wired.com/...
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@anthonyronning
Anthony Ronning
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This is kinda strange to me because Meta had a top tier TEE LLM team with FAIR before layoffs, and had already rolled it out to whatsapp. And is also removing E2EE on insta? What am i missing here?
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@moxie
Moxie Marlinspike
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Confer's privacy technology is coming to Meta AI. We're integrating private AI and end-to-end encryption into Meta's products: https://confer.to/...
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@sampittko
Samuel Pitonak
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An interesting paradox: @moxie joins Meta to work on privacy-first AI while Meta is also slowly disabling E2E encryption on its services? https://confer.to/...
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@agreenberg
Andy Greenberg
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It's kind of weird that Meta didn't announce this. Seems like it could be a big deal, maybe one that pressures other AI companies to follow suit. www.wired.com/story/signal...
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@lhn
Lily Hay Newman
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“As is always the case with unencrypted data, it will inevitably end up in the wrong hands” www.wired.com/story/signal...
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@couts
Andrew Couts
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NEW: Moxie Marlinspike, creator of the Signal protocol, is bringing his encrypted AI chatbot tech to Meta AI, which is integrated with WhatsApp. It's the first major effort to encrypt AI chats. @lhn.bsky.social and @mattburgess1.bsky.social report: www.wired.com/story/signal...