Anonymous or not, you’re still feeding it data
These companies absolutely collect the prompt data and user session behavior. Who knows what kinda analytics they can use it for at any time in the future, even if it’s just assessing how happy the user was with the answers based on response. But having it detached from your person is good. Unless they can identify you based on metrics like time of day, speech patterns, etc
Prompt data is pointless and useless without a human to create a feedback loop for it, at which point it wouldn’t have context anyway. Also human effort to correct spelling dnd other user errors at the outset anyway. Hugely pointless and unreliable.
Not to mention, what good would it do for training? It wouldn’t help the model at all.
Not who you asked but you don’t want your AI to train itself based on the questions random users ask because it could introduce incorrect or offensive information. For this reason llms are usually trained and used in a separate step. If a user gave the llms private information you wouldn’t want it to learn that information and pass it on to other users so there are protections in place usually to stop it from learning new things while just processing requests.
Not really. Depending on the implementation.
It’s not like ddg is going to keep training their own version of llama or mistral
I think they mean that a lot of careless people will give the AIs personally identifiable information or other sensitive information. Privacy and security are often breached due to human error, one way or another.
But these open models don’t really take new input into their models at any point. They don’t normally do that type of inference training.
But that’s a human error as you said, the only way to fix it is by using it correctly as an user. AI is a tool and it should be handled correctly like any other tool, be it a knife, a car, a password manager, a video recording program, a bank app or whatever.
I think a bigger issue here is that many people don’t care about their personal information as much as their lives.
https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/aichat/ai-chat-privacy/
your conversations are not used to train chat models by DuckDuckGo or the underlying model providers
And this is why I stopped using DDG. I swear, I’m just going to have to throw away my computer in the future if this fucking AI bullshit isn’t thrown away like the thieving, energy-sucking, lying pile of garbage that it is.
If it’s using different AI models and allowing anonymity, I am not sure what’s the issue? Do you also object to using a calculator?
Calculator?! Those thieving, energy-sucking piles of garbage! Abacus till I die!
But seriously, AI is insidious in how it data mines us to give us answers, and data mines our questions to build profiles of users. I distrust assurances of anonymity by big data corpos.
I am not sure what method DDG is using for their model updates, I think it’s only fair if journalists follow up with them for clarification. Local LLMs, ones you can download to your machine for use, would circumvent privacy concerns if you’re not updating the weights in some way
Edit to clarify I meant updating the weights using online learning, but it’s still possible to update weights using pre trained weights you can download
I don’t see how we can prove this. Paying them to also spy on us is bad but allowing them replace our software c/localllama with their service is even worse. My funds are better spent on local AI development or device upgrade.
Honest question. How does their service “replace” an open source LLM? If I’ve got locallama on my machine, how does using their service replace my local install?
So it isnt replacing it’s offering an alternative tradeoff with more convenience/less control. I dont see how thats a bad thing?
How anonymous is that thing ?
Ai needs data training & correction from us as user
“Keep in mind that, as a model running through DuckDuckGo’s privacy layer, I cannot access personal data, browsing history, or user information. My responses are generated on-the-fly based on the input you provide, and I do not have the ability to track or identify users.”
I could use that!
Update: it works fantastic and lets you switch easily to different AI models
