Genuine question, but what do people actually use LLMs for? I've installed Ollama and tried to use it to generate some alt text with some Gemini thing, but what I got out ranged from meh to mostly unusable.
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Oh good they scored 2.2 privacy units in privacy. How informative. This isn't a graph this is just some coloured rectangles with arbitrary text printed on them.
What measuring scale is this in, is it a recognised SI unit?
What does the "transperancy" correspond to? It doesn't look like a data collection thing.
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...or you could just not use AI.
What do the scored categories actually mean? How were they scored? How was the data sourced?
Disappointed to see this image getting upvotes as-is. Without proper context, itโs barely a step above a Facebook boomer meme in terms of credibility.
Meh. It might be better than the others in terms of privacy, but that doesn't mean it's really private.
The most private solution is to self host it or not use it at all.
And Ollama then? Kobold.cpp? Llamafile? Those might arguably be better.
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The actual answer:
Deepseek running local. You don't have to give ANY data away.
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I use Protons Lumo from time to time, havent figured out in which cases it performs better or worse compared to mistrals LeChat but i expect they would rank high if they were part of this research. Do think ChatGPT remains superior in many other ways, unfortunately.
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ChatGPT has much lower data collection?
I'm guessing the scale is out of 10
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Transperancy
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