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What are your thoughts on #privacy and #itsecurity regarding the #LocalLLMs you use? They seem to be an alternative to ChatGPT, MS Copilot etc. which basically are creepy privacy black boxes. How can you be sure that local LLMs do not A) "phone home" or B) create a profile on you, C) that their analysis is restricted to the scope of your terminal? As far as I can see #ollama and #lmstudio do not provide privacy statements.

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[–] CashDragon@realbitcoin.cash -3 points 2 days ago (12 children)

Take a look at https://nano-gpt.com/ they have all models available and respect your privacy.

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 days ago (11 children)

I wish when people downvoted comments they explain why. So we can learn.

[–] blackboxwarrior@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 days ago (4 children)

“respect your privacy” is a vague buzzword phrase, and for a post about local LLMs linking a client that calls APIs which log user data is unhelpful

[–] CashDragon@realbitcoin.cash 1 points 1 day ago

By "respect your privacy" I mean no personal data is collected. So as long as you are not putting personal details about yourself in the queries and use a VPN you can stay pretty anonymous while using the service.

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