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20 pointsakshaynathr10 comments

How private is this?

Hopefully running local S2T + LLM and native app with data fully stored on device. I can’t imagine anyone would be happy shipping their private personal thoughts to a cloud LLM + unknown backend service provider, especially because running this stuff locally is well within the realm of possibility these days.

I think about this often. Because I'm a privacy engineer.

It does feel weird to ship all your voice and private thoughts to a remote server.

But how different is it really, than people using notion to journal?

My guess is that it's going to be more and more normalized to have personal voice based communication.

What is notion? My googlefu is letting me down.

I think they're talking about

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notion_(productivity_software)

I think it’s also think it’s interesting to consider from the perspective of side-channel attacks/information leaks. For the most part, I think text notes are well just text. But I shutter to think what other metadata, fingerprinting, or background conversations/information could be extracted from a bunch of audio. But maybe I’m just being overly paranoid.

I would never in a zillion years put things in Notion that would ruin my life if they showed up in a data breach. I don’t even keep a physical journal because I don’t like how hard it is to secure.

Am I in a bubble, or is it the children who are wrong?

Notion, recently published a blog saying they have 200 Billion blocks stored in their postgres instances with hundreds of terabytes stored.

My guess is that the average user does not care/think about privacy, breaches etc. that much.

>I can’t imagine anyone would be happy shipping their private personal thoughts to a cloud LLM + unknown backend service provider

you're in a tech bubble if you think this.

Do you think all the people on this subreddit https://www.reddit.com/r/CharacterAI/ are keeping private thoughts to themselves when doing roleplay with their virtual companions?

No.. I think most people don't think about this stuff at all.

Hi,

I am the builder. In our platform, voice data is not stored on our servers by default. It is used solely for transcription to text and is deleted immediately afterward. Users have the option to enable a feature that allows the storage of voice recordings along with the journal text, but this feature is disabled by default.

We utilize Microsoft's transcription APIs, ensuring that data is not used to train any models.

Additionally, we are developing an "Ask About Your Journal" feature that employs Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) techniques. This feature is also disabled by default and can be enabled by users if desired.

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