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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

building and centralizing pii is indeed a privacy point of failure. what's not to understand?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

think of apple's on-device image scanner ai that flagged people as perverts after they had taken photos of sand dunes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

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