building and centralizing pii is indeed a privacy point of failure. what’s not to understand?
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chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I don’t care if your language model is “local-only” and runs on the user’s device. If it can build a profile of the user (regardless of accuracy) through their smartphone usage, that can and will be used against people.
I don’t know if I’m understanding this argument right, but the idea that integrating locally run AI is inherently privacy destroying in the same way as live service AI doesn’t make a lot of sense to me.
Umbrias@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
The use of local AI does not imply doing that, especially not the centralizing part.
Umbrias@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
I don’t care if your language model is “local-only” and runs on the user’s device. If it can build a profile of the user (regardless of accuracy) through their smartphone usage, that can and will be used against people.
emphasis mine from the text you quoted…
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I don’t see how the possibility it’s connected to some software system for profile building, is a reason to not care whether a language model is local only. The way things are worded here make it sound like this is just an intrinsic part of how LLMs work, but it just isn’t.
knightly@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Microsoft Recall
lime@feddit.nu 3 weeks ago
think of apple’s on-device image scanner ai that flagged people as perverts after they had taken photos of sand dunes.