Signal creator Moxie Marlinspike wants to do for AI what he did for messaging
Introducing Confer, an end-to-end AI assistant that just works.
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/01/signal-creator-moxie-marlinspike-wants-to-do-for-ai-what-he-did-for-messaging/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
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Oh well. They got to Moxie also. 🙁
It’s a travesty of a headline because “it just works” is not the topic of the article. How this LLM “works” any better than any other LLM is not discussed. Like Signal, it’s e2e encrypted. It’s private. But the privacy violations aren’t the reason LLMs do or don’t “work.” The privacy violations are by-the-by. Taking them away doesn’t mean the LLM’s results or performance will change.
This LLM will still be confidently—and now very privately and privacy-preservingly—wrong.
