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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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[–] RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Did you do any research at all?

It's fbs model. They made it free as a PR move. If youre actually worried about it phoning home, you could easily monitor the traffic leaving your PC and see if it's collecting data.

It's facebook, they pay their staff with the astronomical amount of money they have. This is a simpler model, and their goal is to look like the good guy by making this one free, and selling later ones like all the other AI companies are doing. Except FB has fuck you money.