[saligne]

there's a tool for extracting chat history from signal desktop, you could build a plaintext and attachment archive with that if it runs regularly on your pc and appends new chats from the last run.

[dwedge]

I'd be pretty angry if I found out someone I chatted to on Signal was running a service to workaround my message expiry choice and archive my messages. And breaking that trust just to run it through an LLM?

[saligne]

Be angry then, IM communication is not a contract with terms unilaterly decided by one party. Or put a confidential signature with every message, see how well that works for you

[dwedge]

Be a better person. Or at least put a message in your status that you record everything and send it to Google for analysis for minimum personal gain. Do you also carry a second phone to take a photo just in case someone sends you a disappearing photo?

[saligne]

google? signal desktop is not on android, is it? no, its on a pc, as could be a local llm. did i even say i did this before you wanted to assume that you are a better person because what your preferences should be universally obeyed?

[watwut]

If I need a contract for you to treat me decently and respect my choices, I really dont think you can count as a "friend" at all.

[saligne]

naively assuming everyone will do whatever you want is closer to delusions of grandeur than ethics.

[rablackburn]

Everything old is new again. This is basically the debate over IRC Bouncers all over again.

[Squeeeez]

They might not be doing it on purpose, remember that microsoft windows "take a screenshot every few seconds and send it to an llm" thing?

[captn3m0]

Signal pushed a fix for that: https://signal.org/blog/signal-doesnt-recall/

[nanocat]

fucken yep. don’t do this.