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Comment by TheObviousOne | Hacker News Reader

Just read their privacy....

"Arc Max uses OpenAI’s API Platform and Anthropic’s Claude for commercial applications. These features are off by default in the desktop app and not available in the mobile app at this time."

which include in some cases: the whole content of website, URL, etc...

https://arc.net/privacy

NO THANKS!

CALLING OUT TO INTEGRATE THOSE FEATURES WITH LLAMA2.0 LOCALLY WITHIN FOSS CHROMINUM/ FireFOX

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I kicked off Firefox's local translation project last year with my engineering partner Andre (who led Mozilla's efforts with Bergamot and the folks in Europe) and those models are about 30MB per language pair (English is a pivot language so to get from, say French to Spanish, you need two models, the FR/EN and SP/EN) and that works out OK for folks on good connections who rarely encounter a new language and can benefit from the already downloaded models.

I'm not so sure how well it'd work for users if the model was 10X or 100X that size. What do you all think?

Yikes, I immediately thought of exactly the same thing, sending all that data to third parties? no thank you my browser should be my safe space not leaking things itself

Wow, I would've thought these were run on a local model. This sounds like it could get expensive for them quickly, and if I understand correctly these features are available for free? I guess it's only a matter of time until they start charging for them.

EDIT: Per a comment in another thread, these features are only free for 90 days it seems.

The enshitification cycle is moving fast these days.

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