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I was just looking at it. And I should preface, I do not like or trust AI chatbots. I saw "uncensored" in the headline, but when I scrolled down to the pricing, it's actually censored unless you pay. So for free you have a limited number of prompts (seems quite generous though) but there's a maturity filter implied on the free tier which is "disabled" on the $18/mo tier.
I've just been using Duck.ai (DuckDuckGo) for simple and stupid questions (e.g. who would win in a fight between X and Y, dumb shit like that) and it's been fine. You should know DDG has been linked to Bing (Microsoft) for searching. They claim their AI is private. Doesn't really concern me, I think all AI is inherently shit, so I take them at their word that it's private... because I'm not sharing anything with it that matters. Just asking it dumb questions.
That does slightly concern me that ddg is linked to Microsoft. If I’m going thru all this trouble to make my life more private then I believe I need to cut out the major companies as well.
The farther away you get, the more you realize just how far in their greedy claws are. At that point, just remember your successes so far and the habits you have successfully broken. That is starting to help me.
Sheesh, that sounds like a Black Mirror episode. I know a majority of my info/data now is most likely compromised, but moving forward I can make a difference. Also, I can prep these tools for the young ones in my family who aren’t on the internet yet.
Every little bit helps. If you can not completely conceal yourself, just make it more expensive for them to collect data. Data centers are hard to maintain. The more you complicate things, the harder it is for them.