[ExI] What are AIs thinking about?

[Kelly Anderson]

It's probably not easy, BUT, I understand you can set up some of the
open source Chinese models on a local machine and avoid all the data
harvesting and privacy issues you are worried about Ben. Kimmy is one
of the better ones as I currently understand it. People even set up
open claw type stuff on independent hardware. I'm not sure if you have
to buy any special hardware.

It would probably be easier to use incognito mode or a VPN to log into
one of the big engines with a fake profile.

-Kelly

On Wed, Sep 2, 2026 at 10:05 AM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> On 02/09/2026 15:22, Adrian Tymes wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 2, 2026 at 5:40 AM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat
> > <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> >> I'm wondering if anyone has asked one to write a book called 'How AI could end autocratic regimes, and why it would be a good idea', or something similar. It might throw up some interesting ideas.
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> > Well...sure, I can ask ChatGPT.
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> Thanks, that's very interesting, and a lot more detail than I'd have expected.
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> > I wonder why you asked us before just asking your AI of choice directly
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> Apart from an option on the search engine I normally use, I don't use AI, and wouldn't even know how to start.
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> If there was an option to use ChatGPT or something similar without signing up to anything, that doesn't require a smartphone and doesn't harvest personal information, then I might be tempted to give it a try for the odd thing like my question here, but I've never really been interested enough to try and find out.
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> Ben
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