5d ago

I Tried Proton's Lumo AI, a Private Alternative to ChatGPT

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It's not local? It's not private. Period. "End-to-End Encrypted" LOL except they're the other "end". That's just HTTPS.
I like how they're doing shit like this and the bitcoin wallet (that last I checked didn't even support lightning) instead of, you know, improving stuff people actually care about.
Why do all of them fail this question?
- Because LLMs see tokens, not letters or words. It's like showing a human a strawberry and asking them how many atoms it contains.
  
  Sounds like a genuine shortcoming of the technology as it's being ~~presented to~~ forced on the public
- So close
  Edit': lol
- Looks like Lumo had too much catnip.
- They don't fail it tho?
  
  It will generate a new answer in every new chat, it has no knowledge of itself. You can also easily manipulate what it answers by framing your question, if you ask 'where is the i in strawberry' or 'why do you spell strawberry with a single i' it will spit out something much more wrong than when you ask it 'is there an i in strawberry'. This is increasingly true for complicated questions like 'i am about to get fired because i don't spell strawberry right, what can i do to perform better at driving a taxi for my employer who is an accountant tied up in a scandal', but because there usually aren't contradictions in a question the AI isn't seen as dumb and unintelligent but as wise and all knowing. But again, it doesn't know anything it just puts words that statistically fit well together next to each other - which can be really useful if you understand its limits.

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