Comment on Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI
Umbrias@beehaw.org 2 days agoI 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 2 days 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.
Umbrias@beehaw.org 2 days ago
Because these are often sold with profile building features, for example, recall. Recall is sold as “local only” with profile building features. So it continues to be centralized pii that is a point of failure. As the quote says, as i said.
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Even with Recall, a hypothetical non-local equivalent would be significantly worse. Whether Microsoft actually has your data or not obviously matters. Most conceivable software that uses local AI wouldn’t need any kind of profile building anyway, for instance that Firefox translation feature.
The thing that’s frustrating to me here is the lack of acknowledgement that the main privacy problem with AI services is sending all queries to some company’s server where they can do whatever they want with them.
Umbrias@beehaw.org 2 days ago
why do you care that someone didnt say it was worse enough? “x is a problem, if y is true then z is a problem” -> “why didnt you talk about x”
silly.
ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 2 days ago
the point is that making it local-only is not significantly better. it does not solve a major problem.