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PrivateGPT: ChatGPT Alternative with Data Protection System

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ChatGPT users can now prevent their sensitive data from getting recorded by the AI chatbot by installing PrivateGPT, an alternative that comes with data privacy on their systems.

Meet PrivateGPT: ChatGPT Alternative with Data Protection System

 

ChatGPT, an AI chatbot has become an integral part of the tech industry and businesses today. But the AI chatbot privacy concerns are still prevailing and the tech companies are constantly working towards combatting them. The Toronto-based PrivateAI has introduced a privacy driven AI-solution called PrivateGPT for the users to use as an alternative and save their data from getting stored by the AI chatbot.

PrivateGPT allows users to use OpenAI’s ChatGPT-like chatbot without compromising their privacy or sensitive information. The open-source model allows you to post your queries and ask for answers from the AI tool without the need to have an internet connection for the same. The tool has the ability to run entirely offline on the user’s system locally. The company highlighted that no data leaves the local system while being ingested into the AI tool.
 

PrivateGPT has been developed by Iván Martínez Toro. He says, “PrivateGPT at its current state is a proof-of-concept (POC), a demo that proves the feasibility of creating a fully local version of a ChatGPT-like assistant that can ingest documents and answer questions about them without any data leaving the computer (it can even run offline)”

How to Use PrivateGPT?

The AI-powered tool can be downloaded on your systems and then the users can copy all the important files to allow the PrivateGPT to utilize that data to provide you with the solutions and answers. The users, after the setup, can give prompts to the AI tool in the Python execution environment. 

Although each prompt takes longer than the usual ChatGPT but the plus point is that the prompt runs on your system offline instead of any supercomputers. The answers displayed by the PrivateGPT also include the context sources from your documents that it used to process the information and provide the answers.
 

The CEO and co-founder of PrivateAI, Patricia Thaine says, 

“Generative AI will only have a space within our organizations and societies if the right tools exist to make it safe to use. LLMs are not excluded from data protection laws like the GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS, or the CPPA. The GDPR, for example, requires companies to get consent for all uses of their users’ personal data and also comply with requests to be forgotten. By sharing personal information with third-party organizations, they lose control over how that data is stored and used, putting themselves at serious risk of compliance violations.”

ChatGPT privacy concerns lead many top companies like Apple, Samsung, JPMorgan, and several others to ban their employees from using the AI tool on their systems given the risk of companies’ confidential information getting misused.


Last Updated : 27 Jun, 2023
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