Microsoft Is Spying on Users of Its AI Tools - Schneier on Security
Microsoft Is Spying on Users of Its AI Tools - Schneier on Security
NO SHIT.
And this is a surprise how?
The entire digital economy is based on spying. It's called corporate surveillance and it's been around for 25 years. Why would AI escape this business model? If anything, it turbocharges it.
Wait wait wait. Hold on. Okay. Okay. Wait.
Wait so - Microsoft?? Has been spying? On its own customers?!?
I just . . . I mean, it . . . I don’t know what to say!
i giggled
Given how hard they've been pushing Copilot/Bing Chat/etc I'm not surprised
As a bad Python scripter, I'm stuck using Microsoft's AI because there isn't a privacy-focused alternative anywhere near as good.
Don't overuse AI, there is plenty of resources on the web and at least you can practice reading docs. Use Phind. https://www.phind.com/privacy
It's not as good, but running small LLMs locally can work. I've been messing around with ollama, which makes it drop dead simple to try out different models locally.
You won't be running any model as powerful as ChatGPT - but for quick "stack overflow replacement" style of questions I find it's usually good enough.
And before you write off the idea of local models completely, some recent studies indicate that our current models could be made orders of magnitude smaller for the same level of capability. Think Moore's law but for shrinking the required connections within a model. I do believe we'll be able to run GPT3.5-level models on consumer grade hardware in the very near future. (Of course, by then GPT-7 may be running the world but we live in hope).
SkyGPT
GPT4all is another good local one. Runs on CPU but you can use GPU acceleration. Some models even run on my crappy dual core laptop.
Check out github copilot
Not free. But it's cheap paid and supposedly privatey focused.
"If you're not paying for a product, you are the product." Shame usually it's both!
It's still Microsoft. Here's what they say about privacy anyway:
Isn't that their business model? How else can windows be offered for "free"?