Comment by tiahura
10 hours ago
Banks, Biglaw, and the Pentagon all do it in the cloud. What could an individual be working on that is so secretive?
10 hours ago
Banks, Biglaw, and the Pentagon all do it in the cloud. What could an individual be working on that is so secretive?
> Banks, Biglaw, and the Pentagon all do it in the cloud.
In _a_ cloud: their own virtual private cloud. They also have enough power to negotiate contracts with strong privacy provisions.
> They also have enough power to negotiate contracts with strong privacy provisions.
What privacy provisions would you want to add to AWS? Most of the reasonable strong privacy provisions you'd want are already there and/or available if you want to sign up for it, even including US Govt Top Secret data if you meet some approval.
If they decide to ignore the contract and violate the privacy provisions, the US government can punish them, can the company from future contracts, throw executive in jail.
If they violate their privacy agreement with me there's effectively no punishment I can get that they will actually feel. There would have to be a class action law suit and they always just settle those for some small amount and admit to no wrong doing
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This kind of stuff is available off the shelf at any major cloud provider.
Guaranteed privacy is available off the shelf?
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I like to buy specific brand of soap. I don't want them to know that, it is my right and so is running local LLM "wasting" money on local inference to keep track of my stack of soap.
Those companies also have data sharing/use agreements that they can get from Cloud AI providers due to their size and spend. The secrecy and data protection is largely what they are paying for. Those types of agreements just aren’t available to individual customers. It’s only when you’re spending $$$ that it becomes worth it for the provider.