Thoughts on DuckDuckGo AI Chat?
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All AI is trained on all information that’s publicly available and will definitely violate copyright. I don’t trust any AI chatting service tbh, even something like Leo from Brave or DDG Chat in this case.
I use a search engine to search, simple as that.
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IF you want to interact with an LLM and you don’t want to run one locally, DDG AI Chat if probably one of the most private options.
Since hallucinations are an inherent feature of LLMs and I only ask questions when I expect answers I can trust, I don’t ask questions to or seek for answers from LLMs.
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That totally depends on how you use the AI bots. I am using GPT-4o and it’s impressive in a lot fields such as assisting in code writing, drafting proposals, generating synthetic data, data analysis and manipulation as well as finding organisations that mine can partner and etc.
I am even thinking of creating a Privacy GPT, yeah that might seem funny at the beginning, but I don’t have a personal plus account.
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What do you mean by this?
I have to clarify, I think AI as a whole is garbage, over glorified code, that strings together illogical sentences based on probability. I strictly use it for language-focused purposes, such as paraphrasing.
Having the audacity to say that electric circuit boards can be intelligent, will hopefully be looked on back in the future as complete nonsense. To create intelligence requires understanding consciousness, and to know anything is to know everything, so I do not think AI will ever exist. In fact, if we do not understand consciousness, how can we understand, define or even claim that intelligence exists? We can’t.
As for my practical experience with AI, I have used chat bots for around 2 years intensively, they are completely useless except for what I said before.
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On a similar topic, what is the best way (free and private) to access these LLMs? Which one is the best? I saw some FOSS software that let’s you run it locally, is this the way to go?
Please see Add AI Chat tools
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You can provide knowledge sources to a chatbot and instruct it to give answers based on them. I wanna add a custom prompt to act like privacy advocate, cybersecurity expert, and define criteria’s to suggest software and methods. After collecting sources like PG, techlore etc, the GPT will only use these as sources. So, you can get replies for privacy questions and build a threat model, and get step by step guidance etc.
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Sounds like a great idea, they need this for scientific textbooks ASAP!!!
This is exactly what Google NotebookLM do and it’s really impressive.
Can you suggest a privacy respecting service that has similar capabilities?
As long as you have a decent GPU, local inference is the best option
Depends on what you mean by “private”?
Duck.ai’s privacy policy explicitly confirms that data is stored / shared.
… we have agreements in place with all model providers that further limit how they can use data from these anonymous requests, including not using Prompts and Outputs to develop or improve their models, as well as deleting all information received once it is no longer necessary to provide Outputs (at most within 30 days, with limited exceptions for safety and legal compliance (source / mirror).
And that, the guarantee that conversations won’t be used to train AI comes from Duck.ai’s subprocessors/providers (ie, OpenAI for GPT4o-mini & Anthrophic for Claude Haiku) themselves, which is no different (afaik) to the guarantees those subprocessors provide to you if you purchase plans with them directly. OpenAI even has an “anonymous mode”.
If you use one of the open weight models that Duck.ai hosts, you may as well run them yourself for way better privacy (see the note from their privacy policy above). Though, except for DeepSeek R1, none of the mainstream open weight models (Gemma2, Llama3, Mixtral, Qwen, etc) are SoTA (state of the art).
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new to AI and still learning about all the privacy options, so much to absorb…
I stumbled onto Copilot, it came up in a bing search tool on my work pc, they don’t allow other search engines.
And, then have used it to help improve some code over the past few weeks for a project I’m working on, query defs in MS Access, Excel VBA and some pesky Power Queries in Excel. Most times the answers helped, code worked as expected, sometimes I needed to get some clarifications.
Answers seemed to be well formed, have not tried this with other tools, because it was the only option at work, and I figured a MS tool knew a bit about coding.
Also, got some help to fix a bash script on my Linux box at home.
Have not signed in to this tool.
So, then I was thinking about building some storage shelves in my workshop, the commercially available ones waste a lot of space and are a bit pricey, I can get more storage by building my own, materials are less, but labor is more.
So, I took CoPilot for a spin.
Asked it to help calculate lbs / square foot loading for this shelving; to see if the current design was too weak.
Answers included how the calculations were derived, very helpful, but some clarfications were needed, wanted to upload a sketch, but that takes signing in.
Tried DDG AI just now, for the same shelving questions. the answer from DDG AI was also detailed, discussed calculation considerations but eems to have missed the deflection considerations on the horizontal stringer supporting the fronts of the shelves based on 4 foot OC spacing on the vertical supports, and came up with a higher rating than copilot.
And, it won’t take a sketch.
CoPilot will take a sketch, but I have to sign in, which brings me to another question, will ask separately.
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Just never share any private or specific information and you’re fine.
I use perplexity when I need more accurate information (it’s not bulletproof at all, but it tends to be more accurate). Duck.Ai with Llama 3 when I don’t care about facts.