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Running local LLMs for privacy as an alternative to ChatGPT, MS Copilot etc.? (www.youtube.com)

submitted 2 days ago by ShotDonkey@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] utopiah@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Since you ask, here are my thoughts https://fabien.benetou.fr/Content/SelfHostingArtificialIntelligence with numerous examples. To clarify your points :

rely on open-source repository where the code is auditable, hopefully audited, and try offline
see previous point
LLMs don't "analyze" anything, they just spit out human looking text

To clarify on the first point, as the other 2 unfold from there, such project would instantly lose credibility if they were to sneak in telemetry. Some FLOSS projects tried that in the past and it always led to uproars, reverts and often forks of the exact same codebase but without telemetry.

[+] surph_ninja@lemmy.world -8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

“They just spit out human looking text” is so incredibly regressive and asinine.

[–] DWin@feddit.uk 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

But it's accurate? Doesn't mean that human looking text can't be helpful to some, but it'll also help keep us grounded to the reality of the tech.

[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 0 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

It’s not a room of monkeys typing on keyboards. Calculators don’t just spit out random numbers. They use the input to estimate the best solution it can.

I know being anti-AI is popular right now, but y’all are being dishonest about its capabilities to backup your point.

[–] DWin@feddit.uk 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

They're Large Language Models. They're defined as generative pre-trained text transformers, that's their entire purpose.

Saying the calculator spits out random numbers would be wrong, but saying a calculator spits out numbers, that would be correct. Reductionist would probably be a better word than regressive or asinine.