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Ask HN: How do you use LLMs for private discussions?

A Hacker News user asks the community how to use large language models for private discussions without revealing their identity, considering methods like Tor, random accounts, untraceable payments, and scrubbing personal information, while noting the difficulty of running a local LLM due to hardware limitations.

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| |||||||||||||||||||| 2 points by | I sometimes have things to discuss with LLMs, which are more private than usual. I was thinking how to do it in a way that doesn't reveal my identity.

  1. Use Tor to access the provider?
  2. Create a random account?
  3. Use some form of untraceable payment (which one?)
  4. Scrub all information provided to the LLM from personally identifiable information?

It seems like a lot of effort. So is running a local LLM, for which I don't even have the hardware. How do you do it? | ||||||||||||||||||| |

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