Signal creator Moxie Marlinspike wants to do for AI what he did for messagingMoxie Marlinspike—the pseudonym of an engineer who set a new standard for private messaging with the creation of the Signal Messenger—is now aiming to revolutionize AI chatbots in a similar way.
His latest brainchild is Confer, an open source AI assistant that provides strong assurances that user data is unreadable to the platform operator, hackers, law enforcement, or any other party other than account holders. The service—including its large language models and back-end components—runs entirely on open source software that users can cryptographically verify is in place.
Data and conversations originating from users and the resulting responses from the LLMs are encrypted in a trusted execution environment (TEE) that prevents even server administrators from peeking at or tampering with them. Conversations are stored by Confer in the same encrypted form, which uses a key that remains securely on users’ devices.
maven wrote (edited by a moderator )
I can't imagine this would be very successful. The operating expenses for running models people would want to use would just be way too much, and if they aren't complying with surveillance policy no gov assistance will be provided. That's just my immediate assumption though.