There’s a flatpak too, but it’s not good.

Really? It’s been working just fine for me.

I understand that Perplexity employs various language models to handle queries and that the responses generated may not directly come from the training data used by these models; since a significant portion of the output comes from what it scraped from the web. However, a significant concern for some individuals is the potential for their posts to be scraped and also used to train AI models, hence my post.

I’m not anti AI, and, I see your point that transformers often dissociate the content from its creator. However, one could argue this doesn’t fully mitigate the concern. Even if the model can’t link the content back to the original author, it’s still using their data without explicit consent. The fact that LLMs might hallucinate or fail to attribute quotes accurately doesn’t resolve the potential plagiarism issue; instead, it highlights another problematic aspect of these models imo.

Yes, the platform in question is Perplexity AI, and it conducts web searches. When it performs a web search, it generally gathers and analyzes a substantial amount of data. This compiled information can be utilized in various ways, including creating profiles of specific individuals or users. The reason I bring this up is that some people might consider this a privacy concern.

I understand that Perplexity employs other language models to process queries and that the information it provides isn’t necessarily part of the training data used by these models. However, the primary concern for some people could be that their posts are being scraped (which raises a lot of privacy questions) and could also, potentially, be used to train AI models. Hence, the question.

There are several way, honestly. For Android, there’s NewPipe. The app itself fetches the YouTube data. For PC, there are similar applications that do the same such FreeTube. Those are the solutions I recommend.

If you’re one of those, you can also host your own Invidious and/or Piped instances. But I like NewPipe and FeeTube better.

And that’s when it will get real scary real soon!

Lmao

That would make sense…

Yeah. I totally get what you’re saying. Imo, accounts are disposable – I’ve been on the Fediverse for two years now, but I’ve not used a single account for more than six months.

However, as you pointed out, AI can deal with more information than a human possibly could. I don’t think it would be unrealistic to assume that in the near future it will be possible to track someone cross accounts based on things such as their interests, the way they type, etc. Then it will be a major privacy concern. I can totally see three letter agencies using this technique to identify potential people of interest.

Don’t give me any ideas now >:)

I couldn’t agree more!

Oh, no. I don’t dislike it, but I also don’t have strong feelings about it. I’m just interested in hearing other people’s opinions; I believe that if something is public, then it is indeed public.

You can check Hugging Face’s website for specific requirements. I will warn you that lot of home machines don’t fit the minimum requirements for a lot of models available there. There is TinyLlama and it can run on most underpowered machines, but its functionalities are very limited and it would lack a lot as an everyday AI Chatbot. You can check my other comment too for other options.

The issue with that method, as you’ve noted, is that it prevents people with less powerful computers from running local LLMs. There are a few models that would be able to run on an underpowered machine, such as TinyLlama; but most users want a model that can do a plethora of tasks efficiently like ChatGPT can, I daresay. For people who have such hardware limitations, I believe the only option is relying on models that can be accessed online.

For that, I would recommend Mistral’s Mixtral models (https://chat.mistral.ai/) and the surfeit of models available on Poe AI’s platform (https://poe.com/). Particularly, I use Poe for interacting with the surprising diversity of Llama models they have available on the website.

I think that in that case, YouTube is your friend. There are a few pretty straight forward videos that can help you out; if you’re serious about it you’re going have to, eventually, become familiar with it.

That’s totally okay! You didn’t address my specific issue; but I didn’t know that there were instances across the Fediverse that chose to defederate from Threads. I think that, in a way, you’ve partly answered my question. Thank you for taking your time to answer.

Oh, that’s interesting; I had no idea. I’ll go to my Threads profile and check it. I’ll edit this comment later informing whether there really is that option.

Edit: The only option I was able to find was “Suggesting posts on other apps,” and when I clicked on it I only had two options: Instagram and Facebook – none of which are part of the Fediverse. I wasn’t able to find anything on 'Meta’s Accounts Center’ either.

I didn’t know that website, thank you! However, my instance has chosen not to defederate from Threads – according to the source you cited. So, I’m not entirely sure why this is happening.

Congratulations, good Samaritan. Do you want a cookie for your efforts? I just hadn’t specifically thought about cigarettes, which I clearly pointed out in my original comment. If you’ve noticed, good for you. I hadn’t. But spare me the condescension.

It doesn’t work for me, sadly. I hate timers and time blocking. What works for me is setting up reminders, and then doing things whenever I’ve mustered up the energy to; it’s been proven to be pretty efficient so far. I will always do that - unless there’s something that I absolutely need to set up a timer for, or time block. That usually includes meetings or working on a project with someone else.