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.

  • utopiah
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    12 hours ago

    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.