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Many of us have been partitioning our “computing” life into public and private segments, for example for social media, job search, or blogging. Maybe it’s time for another segment somewhere in the middle?

Something like lower risk private data, which could contain things like redacted calendar entries, de-identified, anonymized, or obfuscated email, or even low-risk thoughts, journals, and research.

I am Worried; I barely use ChatGPT for anything that could come back to hurt me later, like medical or psychological questions. I hear that lots of folks are finding utility here but I’m reticent.



>I barely use ChatGPT for anything that could come back to hurt me later, like medical or psychological questions

I use ollama with local LLMs for anything that could be considered sensitive, the generation is slower but results are generally quite reasonable. I've had decent success with gemma3 for general queries.




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