I envy you that you manage to keep meaningful contact with dozens to hundreds of people.
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I analysed 20 years of my chats
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Re: I analysed 20 years of my chats
#12I would like to do something similar, but I lost a lot of whatsapp historical chats switching phones... Don't think there is a way to recover that.. right?
If you configured e2e encryption beforehand and know the key, you might get lucky with the backup files on your old phone
Re: I analysed 20 years of my chats
#13Damn this is a nice reminder that even private chats I sent to someone else 10 years ago aren't safe from being harvested by AI
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#14I mostly text on Signal with disappearing messages so I wouldn't be able to do this. Most people are fine with disappearing messages at 4 weeks, but a few people like to keep their chats forever.
there's a tool for extracting chat history from signal desktop, you could build a plaintext and attachment archive with that if it runs regularly on your pc and appends new chats from the last run.
I'd be pretty angry if I found out someone I chatted to on Signal was running a service to workaround my message expiry choice and archive my messages. And breaking that trust just to run it through an LLM?
Re: I analysed 20 years of my chats
#15I would like to do something similar, but I lost a lot of whatsapp historical chats switching phones... Don't think there is a way to recover that.. right?
Do you still have those phones/Android files?
Re: I analysed 20 years of my chats
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
there's a tool for extracting chat history from signal desktop, you could build a plaintext and attachment archive with that if it runs regularly on your pc and appends new chats from the last run.
I'd be pretty angry if I found out someone I chatted to on Signal was running a service to workaround my message expiry choice and archive my messages. And breaking that trust just to run it through an LLM?
fucken yep. don’t do this.
Re: I analysed 20 years of my chats
#17I wanted to do this so bad back in like 2009. I archived MSN messenger chats and my texts and everything and I figured sometime in the future I'd be able to analyze them and maybe even train a chat bot to imitate me. But over the years I lost hard drives and cell phones and accidentally deleted stuff and yeah it didn't happen. Very cool this guy was able to do it
I used to have saving turned on for my MSN Messenger chats back around 2001-2004. I didn't lose them. 10-15 years later or so I had a look through them and the cringe was so powerful that I deleted them all anyway.
This made me laugh out loud.
Re: I analysed 20 years of my chats
#18I do wanna do the same, but at times I fear about getting too aware from the insights of the analysis, I fear my opinions my faith might change in certain people.
Re: I analysed 20 years of my chats
#19I wanted to do this so bad back in like 2009. I archived MSN messenger chats and my texts and everything and I figured sometime in the future I'd be able to analyze them and maybe even train a chat bot to imitate me. But over the years I lost hard drives and cell phones and accidentally deleted stuff and yeah it didn't happen. Very cool this guy was able to do it
I have my msn logs along with a lot of old stuff in an ecrypted hard drive with a password I have forgotten. I am waiting for divine enlightment to remember the password, or quantum computers to finally come.
Weirdly glad to hear I am not the only one effectively having lost them.
Re: I analysed 20 years of my chats
#20Finally, a good use for LLMs. I would be so embarrassed to read old messages, yet LLMs just psychopatically chug along without flinching or cringing.