Your conversations with AI may not be as private as you think - IMDEA Networks
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A study conducted by researchers at IMDEA Networks Institute has revealed that ChatGPT (OpenAI), Claude (Anthropic), Grok, and Perplexity AI use different types of trackers from Meta, Google, TikTok and other companies, potentially exposing data about users’ conversations and activity. In just a few years, these generative AI systems have become widely adopted, with many...
  • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    311·
    3 days ago

    *LLM assistants

    And no shit, Sherlock. If you thought otherwise, you are living proof why there should be laws protecting people from such predatory snake oil vendors.

    • XLE@piefed.socialEnglish
      7·
      3 days ago

      I wonder how close we are to getting our details leaked to LLMs because rubes with our contact info are just dumping them on those servers. Kind of like how Facebook maintains a social graph of you even if you don’t use it.

  • 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    3 days ago

    Thats the risk of centralized services. If you are that worried about it, you would be installing a local model to run offline on your PC instead.

    • P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      What’s this, you say? Does it involve running LM Studio with a GLM-4.7 Flash model? And it only costs the kilowatts for my video card? And it can only go out to the internet if I allow it to?

      • 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 days ago

        Your PC likely wont have a million context-size capability, but thats the price you pay for being in the peasant class instead of the billionaire class.

  • Jiral@lemmy.orgEnglish
    3·
    3 days ago

    I doub it that mine does. I am running GPT-OSS-120B and Gemma4 31B on a local llama.cpp server on my PC.