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Introducing Lumo, the AI where every conversation is confidential | Proton (proton.me)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/33354137

We believe the benefits of AI are too great to miss, and the risks too serious to ignore. Whether we like it or not, AI is here to stay, but the current iterations of AI reflect a failure to learn from the past. That’s why we built Lumo — a private AI assistant that only works for you, not the other way around. With no logs kept and every chat encrypted, Lumo keeps your conversations confidential and your data fully under your control — never shared, sold, or stolen.

You can start using Lumo today for free, even if you don’t have a Proton Account. Just go to lumo.proton.me and type in a query.

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[–] 29 points 1 year ago (5 children)

How does chat encryption matter when it needs to be processed on their servers? It's not like messaging where they just act as a middleman by sending a message from point A to point B, they're actually having to process a query.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    I don't understand it too, e2e encryption but the AI has to process the data somehow :L ???

    EDIT: If they refer to encryption as just encryption on message transport that's just HTTPs, to verify that they are not saving your data, the backend source code needs to be available to analyze it.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    a part of the point is, all the data used by the AI is encrypted so it cannot be accessed by anyone except your device.

    chatgpt, for example, will incorporate everything you say and do into its own model. Lumo doesnt as your prompts/results are only used if unencrypted by your device.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    If your encryption is not a layer on top of a messaging service, you have to trust that the service you're using is actually end-to-end encrypted. I point this out because it means that encryption is not a protection against he service not doing what it says it does, but rather it is a protection against other things: passing data to governments, having a hacker break in and leak it, that kind of thing.

    By storing stuff securely, it mitigates that problem, I guess. A government would have to have a "live tap" to know what you write to the LLM, rather than being able to slurp out all your historical conversations.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    in systems i've seen with severe encryption, the data is only unencrypted by the actual processing engine. otherwise, its encrypted at the field level, during transit and at rest. yes, you have to trust the processing engine isnt doing anything nefarious, but at some level you have to trust something. proton has a solid history of trust despite the one idiot that works there.

    youre not smelting your own processors for example. if youre not forging your own processors then youre just not secure!

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