Comment on Is LM Studio's GUI safe despite being closed source?

• Paragone@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Are you old enough to remember all the machiavellianisms committed by Microslop corp?

  As a relatively-recent example, their Windows Vista would secretly inform MS of all the search-queries done within windows.

  And … for some incomprehensible reason, that wasn’t prosecuted as a criminal offense.

  So, MS was being informed of things like …

  • hospital searching for “William Smith, bone cancer” & the search found the right file, & THAT kind of information was being forwarded back?

  • police searching for “Bob and Alice, classical physics violators”, & THAT kind of information would be forwarded back to MS?

  You don’t engineer-in machiavellianism like MS has done, for … it’s 40-years now? something like that … without making SOME people understand just how religious some corporations are, about being DarkTriad ( narcissism/machiavellianism/sociopathy-psychopathy ), in nature.

  & they aren’t the only ones.

  Nowadays, any corporation which violates DarkTriad … is considered … perhaps “mentally ill”, by market standards?

  I’m only using MS as an example.

  Remember when OpenOffice.org became the property of Oracle?

  LibreOffice.org was born in a week or 2?

  Cynicism absolutely is warranted, nowadays.

  I’m old-enough that MS’s stealing of Stac Electronics’ disk-compression algorithm, but they fucked-it-up, in their DOS 6.20 bit me.

  Assuming altruism on the part of some company … that is mental-illness, nowadays.

  I’m not agreeing with the assumption-river of the person you’re replying to, but I am saying that their reaction has basis/validity, nowadays.

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  I found out, after using LM Studio, that LLM’s can access everything on one’s own system.

  I don’t know to what degree that’s true with LM Studio, but 1 time I gave an internet-address, & the LLM told me what it had found on the site I just told it of.

  I hadn’t known it had unrestricted internet-access.

  Later, I learned it could probably read every file on my system, too, & some AI-attacks get the LLM to get info from people’s personal files, single-out the credit-card, address, contacts, etc, information, & have the LLM forward that to a server out there…

  That isn’t a security-concern that normals would even consider.

  NOW I know that if I ever fire-up my desktop again, I’ll have to rip-out the LLM’s from my normal user-account, & create a completely-separate locked-down account, with NOTHING ELSE in it, only for them.

  & keep EVERYTHING personal in a different account, that they can’t even see.

  That isn’t an LM Studio specific thing, that is apparently required for ALL the things.

  & nobody’s warning anybody about this?

  I think it was on The Register that I found that out, last year…

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• someone@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Nope, I’m looking for a reason to keep using it when I hate closed-source software! It’s the exact opposite!

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