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Is there a relatively privacy-friendly iOS way to use LLMs like ChatGPT or enemies? (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by cheese_greater@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[+] velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml 21 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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[–] starman@programming.dev 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Are you sure that you can't run LLMs on your phone?

[–] lars@programming.dev -1 points 10 months ago

Yes. You can barely run them on a high end personal computer.

[+] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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[–] velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I am not an expert here, so I cannot help you extensively. I just like to play around with projects. There's already tutorials out there for running a private LLM, so you might want to refer that.

I've tried running Alpaca 7B on my laptop using Dalai, and let's just say it toasted my device (i5 8265U, 8GB RAM, 25W MX250 2GB VRAM). I wouldn't recommend Dalai as the front-end, the Node script is a mess and it also requires privilege escalation to run commands - there are probably some other better front-ends out there.

Persimmon 8B is a slightly better model. Then there's also Mistral 7B, but I don't know much about that.

You might want to run these models using Google Cloud's Vertex AI.

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Can you check out quickly and comment on SideMind (iOS)?

Edit: hope this doesnt come across as too "do shit for me Spidey" :/

[–] velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I've checked the page you were talking about, and it shows how they have a bunch of different models, which is but an illusion of choice. I think what they're basically doing over here is that they're still using ChatGPT's API, but they're probably introducing some biases for the way these models talks, using specialized prompts that probably execute before you do the chatting (I think this is possible, but as I've never used their API, I cannot confirm this). So you're chatting with the same bot, that has it's mannerisms tweaked.

Putting that aside, and if I'm assuming that they're just like the rest of the other "AI" companies out there, they're still using OpenAI's service. The issue with this is that now you're exposed to a middleman that also has hands over your personal chat, apart from OpenAI. If you want a private LLM, you must run it on a personal instance by yourself.

A better option would be to look around on GitHub for someone's project, make sure that their front-end has web-app support, pin the web-app onto your iPhone's desktop I would urge you to check a few such projects on GitHub. Like for example, privateGPT, GPT4ALL (recommended) and Dalai (not recommended), which are completely open-source.

Edit: Yup, they're most probably using OpenAI's API, read their privacy policy here.

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I coulda swore they had the No Data Collected label?

[–] folshost@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Llama.cpp is relatively fast and might run on your Mac depending on how capable it is

[–] jacktherippah@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm on Android but can't you just make a shortcut to the website and use it in the browser? 1000000113

[–] Asudox@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Im not sure if using ChatGPTs website is what OP is asking for since OP said he wanted a ptivacy friendly way to use LLMs such as ChatGPT.

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world -2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Please do t say "browser", I wanna app dammit ;)

[–] pandarisu@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I get personal choice, but if you are looking for privacy focused, wouldn't a browser based option give the developer less information than installing an app?

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Aight, u talked me down lol. I suppose [a]i can use Friendly for it too as like a springboard for things where I want like the WebApp to be like an app and also a tad more optimized/slick than simple WPAs.

[–] Liforra@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

Pack the website into a executable