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21 sats \ 3 replies \ @optimism 4 Aug \ parent \ on: AI is Polytheistic, not Monotheistic: How AI Will Change Politics, War, & Money AI
Arming "the enemy" how though?
Data. It's not because it's running locally that your information is completely protected, the model is processing and being trained, what guarantee do you have that it won't share insights with the developer, or that it will do so in a future moment of carelessness during an update or through an extraction from an agent who has an interest in data like this?
Most importantly, making yourself dependent on an AI makes you open to concepts where the AI is controlling many aspects of your life.
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what guarantee do you have that it won't share insights with the developer
For one, because I use my inference code, not "the developer's code", but it's good to check nonetheless. I'll run some wireshark tests later this week and let everyone know if I find something fishy in things like
llama.cpp or transformers.FWIW, your concern is not without precedent; see for example #1057075 for something that does exactly what you say. This is why as a coder, using a MS IDE or a fork of it is kind of a self-own, always has been (and it is not that great quality software anyway.)
Most importantly, making yourself dependent on an AI makes you open to concepts where the AI is controlling many aspects of your life.
Have to retain the skills. This is very true. We had a discussion about this not too long ago: #998489
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Unfortunately, I don't have the same technical knowledge as you, so my defenses in this case are good old-fashioned staying away and listening to what the community has to say, if you find anything, please share it.
your concern is not without precedent
Good old-fashioned telemetry delivering everything that someone with good knowledge can triangulate. Terrible.
We recently had chatgpt data leaked in google results, it doesn't refer to private machines running their own models, but it's still worrying.
We had a discussion about this not too long ago
All the points raised there are very much what I observe in relation to people who make continuous use of it. Especially this one.
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