I have unlimited. I don’t need another account - remove the icon from composer
https://account.proton.me/u/2/mail/general#general
Disable Proton Scribe Writing Assistant
Why the frack isn’t this in proton ulimited Only in Multi user accounts
Not really unlimited any more
Id like to choose what I want in my paid plan. I dont want Proton Pass and Proton Wallet. But I would like the Scribe assistant. If you have the unlimited plan it should have unlimited amount of features. These pricing models do not make any sense.
This should be in unlimited seriously. That’s the highest paying individual plan man.
Thanks for the feedback! Switching from the Unlimited plan to Duo is around $5/month more which is less than what other AI services usually cost. Rest assured we’ll share your feedback with the rest of the team.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/1g9jqs3/unlimited_and_scribe/lt7tabc/
The first reason we didn’t bundle Scribe with Unlimited is because honestly we thought we were going to attacked if we did that. When Scribe first came out (as a B2B only feature), a lot of people were pissed, despite all the privacy guarantees (being the world’s first AI writing assistant that was both open source and capable of running locally) and the fact it was not even on by default. So the fear was including it in Unlimited would cause people go to, “Oh, Proton’s just becoming another AI company now, and trying to force AI we don’t want down everybody’s throat.”
The second reason is cost. Each Nvidia H100 GPU is the cost of a small car, and in the initial Scribe rollout we saw that most user don’t elect to run Scribe locally. Basically, until AI compute gets cheaper, including it in Unlimited now, would require raising the price of Unlimited. Combining this with the fact that there is a vocal minority of users who don’t want anything AI at all, would make it untenable. The above cited complaint would become “Proton is increasing prices to force AI we don’t want down everybody’s throat, due to uncontrolled corporate greed” (never mind the fact that Proton’s main shareholder is the non-profit Proton Foundation).
So we did what seemed most correct. We gave it away for free, to Duo and Family users. Essentially, we’re not charging consumers for it as a paid add-on, making us probably the only company not trying to milk AI features for profit.
Now, we expect AI compute prices to fall over time, as the hardware cost goes down and models become more efficient. And Proton’s non-profit structure means we are not focused solely on the maximization of profit. When our costs go down we actually pass on those savings to users. So probably some day in the future, the unit economics changes to the point where we can offer Scribe to Unlimited users without raising prices.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/1f4961c/good_morning_unlimited_users/
Unlimited ≠ unlimited
Logic
That’s fair actually, agreeing or not is another matter, but the reasoning holds up tbh
Then at least let Unlimited users enable Scribe to run locally, and just restrict the cloud usage.
Switching to Duo when you’re grandfathered into their old pricing because you were with them since the beginning? I think not. I’ll swap to a different company before that happens.
This doesn’t explain why Scribe is a standard part of Duo and Family plans. I suspect there are enough users who will want one of these plans, but have no need for AI-crap for which you have to pay anyway.
And that’s my point and of many users: disconnect al those package deals. Let us choose which apps we want. If someone only wants a Proton VPN sub, make it happen. If someone wants Scribe for use in his Proton Mail sub, make it happen. But don’t force us to get apps we don’t need or want, but for which we pay anyway. I have Unlimited, but I don’t want Pass, Drive and VPN. Surely, I could have not subscribe for Unlimited, but I like Proton Mail.
Ehhh, ai services come with more than writing though.
Bart explained why they didn’t do that over here:
We considered this but it runs on far too few machines.
Which doesn’t work on most devices, which is why the server-side version is necessary.
Then we’ll get (many more) complaints that something users are paying for they can’t use. It doesn’t work.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/1f4961c/good_morning_unlimited_users/lkk6cbp/
it does explain really, 99% of the annoying f***s who were complaining about the AI feature on reddit are basement dwellers, they won’t ever go to a family plan or share anything at all