I’ve been trying to figure out how to use AI in a meaningful way. There’s a number of cases where it makes sense, but the way companies like to scrape and collect data is abusive in my opinion.

I am a believer that if it’s free, you’re the product, so I would expect any AI that has a semblance of privacy included would be a paid service.

As I investigate new tools and services, I spend/waste a lot of time reading privacy policies and TOS. What’s your take on something like privacy-protector.cc? Has anyone used this, it seems straight forward, and while they do collect some identifying information, it seems reasonable.

Their privacy policy which is one of the cleanest, most straight-forward, I’ve seen in a while.
[https://www.privacy-protector.cc/privacy_policy](Privacy Policy)

  • fxomt@lemm.eeM
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    22 hours ago

    Is it not open source? That’s a tenet for posting in the community.

    • confusedwiseman@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      12 hours ago

      I certainly hope my post didn’t come off as promotion of this app. My intention was to discuss viability. Decent proprietary software does exist even though that’s a bit of an oxymoron.

      • fxomt@lemm.eeM
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        10 hours ago

        It’s fine then. I’d recommend to steer against it since it’s obscure (also can’t access the site for some reason) and not FOSS. You’re better off using a local LLM

  • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
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    22 hours ago

    I can’t access the site. But I can just go ahead and summarize every privacy policy ever right here:

    We collect all the data we possibly can and sell it to whoever will pay us money for it. If you disagree, you may not use our service.