I think their documentation will help shed some light on this. Reading my edits will hopefully clarify that too. Either way, I always recommend reading their docs.

Yes, the platform in question is Perplexity AI, and it conducts web searches. When it performs a web search, it generally gathers and analyzes a substantial amount of data. This compiled information can be utilized in various ways, including creating profiles of specific individuals or users. The reason I bring this up is that some people might consider this a privacy concern.

I understand that Perplexity employs other language models to process queries and that the information it provides isn’t necessarily part of the training data used by these models. However, the primary concern for some people could be that their posts are being scraped (which raises a lot of privacy questions) and could also potentially used to train AI models. Hence, the question.

That would make sense…

Not really. All I did was ask it what it knew about [email protected] on Lemmy. It hallucinated a lot, thought. The answer was 5 to 6 items long, and the only one who was partially correct was the first one – it got the date wrong. But I never fed it any data.

Yeah, it hallucinated that part.

I think so too. And I tried to do my research before making this post, but I wasn’t able to find anyone bringing this issue up.

You can check Hugging Face’s website for specific requirements. I will warn you that lot of home machines don’t fit the minimum requirements for a lot of models available there. There is TinyLlama and it can run on most underpowered machines, but its functionalities are very limited and it would lack a lot as an everyday AI Chatbot. You can check my other comment too for other options.

The issue with that method, as you’ve noted, is that it prevents people with less powerful computers from running local LLMs. There are a few models that would be able to run on an underpowered machine, such as TinyLlama; but most users want a model that can do a plethora of tasks efficiently like ChatGPT can, I daresay. For people who have such hardware limitations, I believe the only option is relying on models that can be accessed online.

For that, I would recommend Mistral’s Mixtral models (https://chat.mistral.ai/) and the surfeit of models available on Poe AI’s platform (https://poe.com/). Particularly, I use Poe for interacting with the surprising diversity of Llama models they have available on the website.

I think that in that case, YouTube is your friend. There are a few pretty straight forward videos that can help you out; if you’re serious about it you’re going have to, eventually, become familiar with it.

Oh, that’s interesting; I had no idea. I’ll go to my Threads profile and check it. I’ll edit this comment later informing whether there really is that option.

Edit: The only option I was able to find was “Suggesting posts on other apps,” and when I clicked on it I only had two options: Instagram and Facebook – none of which are part of the Fediverse. I wasn’t able to find anything on 'Meta’s Accounts Center’ either.

I didn’t know that website, thank you! However, my instance has chosen not to defederate from Threads – according to the source you cited. So, I’m not entirely sure why this is happening.

That’s crazy! I didn’t even realized they had plastic in them. Makes you wonder how many inconspicuous everyday items have the potential to become plastic waste.

That’s totally okay. Thank you!

Maybe! Either way, thank you for taking your time to comment :)

I browsed the communities introvertcatto mentioned, and I didn’t come across any political content.

The one at lemmy.world has been shut down and moved to lemm.ee, from what it seems. Not exactly what I’m looking for, but those are great options too. Thank you for the recommendations!

Which one? [email protected]? I’m in it already; I was looking for something a little more ‘serious’.