| Seems I formulated my question in a way that wasn't clear. I specifically like the privacy aspect (even though honestly I think most people in this forum claim they do and yet they rely on BigTech with which they their data, so IMHO most people on HN are not as demanding as you describe) the question is precisely about what to run. FWIW I specifically keep a page on self hosting AI (you can check if you want to see if it's real at https://fabien.benetou.fr/Content/SelfHostingArtificialIntel... ) so again, the privacy aspect is crucial to me. The question is ... what to actually run. What can't be run locally that would be useful. What model for which tasks. For example coding (which I don't think models are good enough for) typically would NOT need this because one wouldn't share any PII over there, hopefully would even instead publish the resulting code as open source. So my provocation about spammer is... because they often ARE actual users of LLMs. They use LLM for their language capabilities, namely craft a message that is always slightly different yet convey (roughly) the same meaning (the scam) to avoid detection. A random person though using LLM might NOT be OK with hallucinations when they use it for their own private journal or chat. So... what for? Edit: I did use Apple for years, recommending by someone at Mozilla, and I moved away from them earlier this year precisely because even though they are better than others, e.g Google, IMHO it's just not good enough for me. No intermediary is better than one with closed source. |
It's an LLM. The user can ask it anything they can think of! But then to to "only spammers could eke out anything from them".
What do users ask OpenAI about? My boyfriend/girlfriend/wife/mistress cheated on me, what should I do? My mom is... My dad is... My friends are.. I have this problem with this company and I want to sue them... I have this weird lump on my foot... More nefariously, I'm sure someone out there asking "how do I make cocaine" is seriously considering it, and not just testing the machine. I want to talk to somebody about 1994, the TV series from 2019. I want to write a fiction book about the near future but one where I won the lottery or I grew up rich or I was Harry Potter or a murder mystery or utopian sci-fi or dystopian sci-fi or an alt-history where there are still dinousaurs or or or.
I don't know if it's a failure of your imagination, or if mine is overactive, but making a venn diagram of all the world's humans broken down into spammers and not spammers, and then placing the circle users of local LLMs inside of spammers, and there's no one else, just seems a bit reductive.