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Re: Personal Encyclopedias

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Post by antonyh »

neonstatic wrote: post #17
Tepix wrote: post #15

The project itself is cool if you have access to a LLM API endpoint with good privacy (perhaps your own GPU server). I wouldn't give a LLM run by a US corporation access to my private photographs.

Would you give it to an LLM run by Chinese, Russian, or European corporation?

As a European, yes I'd prefer an EU LLM.

What I don't want to do is give it to services with an agenda to abuse the data, particularly those profiling individuals for profit. Frankly, I'd trust a Chinese service more than I would an Adtech based one, but that's still not much.

Re: Personal Encyclopedias

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Post by vasco »

GJim wrote: post #44
vasco wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which US smartphone operating system do you use?

A reputable company will follow the GDPR and not share my personal data without explicit opt-in consent. Dodgy LLMs are anybody's guess.

Is the NSA GDPR compliant?

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Post by znpy »

MediaWiki mentioned!

I started running an private MediaWiki instance during the pandemic as I wanted something with a nice editing experience rather than editing markdown documents. I almost went with a self-hosted Confluence instance :P

Mediawiki is very very nice and it has a lot of cool features i've been loving over the years.

One of the things i like the most is the ability to embed a PDF document so that it's both downloadable and browsable from the wiki page itself (it embeds the browser pdf engine).

This means that i can, say, have a page for my microwave oven and have its user manual easily available.

Lately I've been thinking how to connect that with some LLM, most likely there's a chance to do some interesting things :)

Re: Personal Encyclopedias

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Post by Rebuff5007 »

bawolff wrote: post #2

That sounds like a really cool project and a really interesting way to preserve family history. I feel like i don't know how to emotionally react to the AI part of this story. To begin with, it is fundamentally cool we have technology like that. At the same time it felt bittersweet, like an artisan being put out of business by the factory. The first part of the story felt like much of the love was in constructing eve…

I share this dilemma too. Just a thought -- I feel less okay with AI processing "data made for humans" (i.e. the images themselves, audio recordings of speech) and more ok with it processing "data made for software" (exif data, shazam logs).

Re: Personal Encyclopedias

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Post by fuzzy_biscuit »

72deluxe wrote: post #57

I am starting to do this with actual physical books. I have thousands of photos going back over my life, and I am putting them together in Scribus to then go and print a physical book for each year or event or holiday along with some relevant text. Ideally square books that can go on a coffee table. At least when I am dead there will be some part of my existence in physical form, unlike all the digital things we spen…

Won't the SD card data decay in a relatively short time? Maybe convert some part of that video into a flipbook for another piece of physical media?

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Post by terminalgravity »

I do something similar to a personal encyclopedia but using org-roam. I don’t use an LLM yet to do any work but eventually i plan to use a local model to correlate things and pull together things that were not manually connected. Also I’m glad that LLMs can easily parse org docs so that if any future family member wanted to look through they wouldnt have to be familiar with emacs esoteric conventions.

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Post by solstice »

72deluxe wrote: post #60
solstice wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've also started thinking about this. Can you share some templates or other tips on how to do this?

I did spend some time getting some LLM to write a generator (in C++) of a scribus XML file for automatic layout, but it wasn't effective. I need to get back to looking at that, as it would be very useful. As my photos range in aspect ratios and formats (4:3 and 3:2) and I have thousands and thousands of RAW photos to process and "finish", it's an ongoing work! So for now I am just doing it manually, with the help of…

wow, thank you!
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