Comment on Is LM Studio's GUI safe despite being closed source?

• Placid@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Sounds like you’re looking for a reason to not use this application.

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  • Paragone@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Are you old enough to remember all the machiavellianisms committed by Microslop corp?

    As a relatively-recent example, their Windows Vista would secretly inform MS of all the search-queries done within windows.

    And … for some incomprehensible reason, that wasn’t prosecuted as a criminal offense.

    So, MS was being informed of things like …

    • hospital searching for “William Smith, bone cancer” & the search found the right file, & THAT kind of information was being forwarded back?

    • police searching for “Bob and Alice, classical physics violators”, & THAT kind of information would be forwarded back to MS?

    You don’t engineer-in machiavellianism like MS has done, for … it’s 40-years now? something like that … without making SOME people understand just how religious some corporations are, about being DarkTriad ( narcissism/machiavellianism/sociopathy-psychopathy ), in nature.

    & they aren’t the only ones.

    Nowadays, any corporation which violates DarkTriad … is considered … perhaps “mentally ill”, by market standards?

    I’m only using MS as an example.

    Remember when OpenOffice.org became the property of Oracle?

    LibreOffice.org was born in a week or 2?

    Cynicism absolutely is warranted, nowadays.

    I’m old-enough that MS’s stealing of Stac Electronics’ disk-compression algorithm, but they fucked-it-up, in their DOS 6.20 bit me.

    Assuming altruism on the part of some company … that is mental-illness, nowadays.

    I’m not agreeing with the assumption-river of the person you’re replying to, but I am saying that their reaction has basis/validity, nowadays.

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    I found out, after using LM Studio, that LLM’s can access everything on one’s own system.

    I don’t know to what degree that’s true with LM Studio, but 1 time I gave an internet-address, & the LLM told me what it had found on the site I just told it of.

    I hadn’t known it had unrestricted internet-access.

    Later, I learned it could probably read every file on my system, too, & some AI-attacks get the LLM to get info from people’s personal files, single-out the credit-card, address, contacts, etc, information, & have the LLM forward that to a server out there…

    That isn’t a security-concern that normals would even consider.

    NOW I know that if I ever fire-up my desktop again, I’ll have to rip-out the LLM’s from my normal user-account, & create a completely-separate locked-down account, with NOTHING ELSE in it, only for them.

    & keep EVERYTHING personal in a different account, that they can’t even see.

    That isn’t an LM Studio specific thing, that is apparently required for ALL the things.

    & nobody’s warning anybody about this?

    I think it was on The Register that I found that out, last year…

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  • someone@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Nope, I’m looking for a reason to keep using it when I hate closed-source software! It’s the exact opposite!

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