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    Beware that it just forwards your queries to openai

    We have agreements with model providers to further protect your privacy.

    As noted above, we call model providers on your behalf so your personal information (for example, IP address) is not exposed to them. In addition, we have agreements in place with all model providers that further limit how they can use data from these anonymous requests that includes not using Prompts and Outputs to develop or improve their models as well as deleting all information received within 30 days.

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    FYI: You don’t have to choose OpenAI. You can also choose Claude 2.1. Its corpus is more ethically sourced & it’s more private with user data, but in return it is naturally less feature-complete. Still pretty awesome though!

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            This. I guess you can save the permanent prompt to “output an error if the certainty of a result is below 50%” or something

            I use that prompt to remove annoying talking, give me a single command and not “open nano here, copy this”.

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        ChatGPT is incorrect. I asked Claude about it and this is what it has to say.

        (Skip to bottom for tl;dr.)

         

         


         

        tl;dr

        Claude’s end response:

        when I said earlier that “Claude acts as a privacy layer provided by DuckDuckGo”, that was an incorrect statement. To clarify:

        • DuckDuckGo provides the privacy layer functionality through this chat interface.

        • I am Claude, an AI model created by Anthropic to converse.

        • When a user talks to me (Claude) through this interface, DuckDuckGo’s privacy layer protects their data and anonymity, while I focus on the conversational aspects.

        • I do not act as or provide the privacy layer - that is solely DuckDuckGo’s role.

        Thank you for catching my mistaken statement earlier. To summarize correctly:

        DuckDuckGo enables the privacy layer protections. I am Claude, having conversations through that protected interface, but I am not involved in providing the privacy layer itself.

        I appreciate you taking the time to ensure I understand this properly. Please let me know if any part of the explanation remains unclear!

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      Yes, it’s a stretch, but think about it. If they is a proxy, then it isn’t worse than using piped or invidious too search and listen for music or such.

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    Better alternatives are always welcomed, even if they’re not universally needed or perfect. I already use their search engine quite regularly so I can imagine I will try this occasionally, though I think trust issues with AI chat will always be difficult to overcome for me since I’ve spent the majority of my life doing this stuff for myself.

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      Well, I mostly haven’t used the existing tools because I did not trust the service providers with my privacy, and also I do not think these are such an all important tools.

      However this is a proxy, basically. Isn’t it?
      So if we are fine using youtube through (video proxying instances of) Invidious and Piped, then this should be fine too (if you don’t input private info of yours or others, that is)

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      Which models do you run on jan? I often get very weird responses and/or never ending feedback loops.

      That being said I still don’t have much use for text-based ai, it doesn’t really fill any gaps in my workflow

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      Why would I use brave (with its weird fucked up crypto links) over Vivaldi? If you’re using chromium anyway, I don’t get the brave love.

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        I would use Firefox over either, but at least Vivaldi’s ownership model seems pretty good (employee owned). Brave is just so untrustworthy at a company level.

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          Been saying this for years, the day Firefox gets native gestures, is the day I’ll swap.

          Can’t live without them (and speeddial tbh)

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        Better privacy, better UI not cluttered by excessive and unnecessary options, and a fantastic feature set… but I’m referring to their search engine in this context.

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          Dude, there is degoogled chromium, and various other blink engine choices, but touting brave as a “superior” option? Oof. Big oof.

          On the gecko side of things, there are a ton of great choices as well. All of them are better in every single way than brave.

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            Because it objectively IS. It passes privacy tests in so many areas where others fail and I’m not just talking about those privacy test sites, I’m talking tests we can run ourselves. It’s fine if you don’t like Brave but don’t let your emotions get in the way of the fact that it is, by default, the best option for privacy out of the box. Sure, you CAN harden Firefox or use Librewolf but even those don’t always succeed in passing those tests like Brave does.