Post #1534098

2026-04-15 08:16 UTC

I’m trying out Google’s Gemma4 LLM, which is run locally, and is touted as a 100% private model. Asking it some questions about itself, at one point it acknowledged that chats were sent to “developers”.

Replies (7)

@ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 2026-04-15 09:15

Yeah, I wouldn't trust anything LLM says.

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@HereIAm@lemmy.world 2026-04-15 11:31

I feel like that should be quite easy to verify with wireshark.

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@natebluehooves@pawb.social 2026-04-15 12:46

llama.cpp doesn’t have the ability to send telemetry because the next word predictor says so. you can confirm with wireshark.

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@nightlily@leminal.space 2026-04-15 22:15

You mean it hallucinated a positive response to your leading question as it is meant to? You are operating on a fundamental misunderstanding of what LLMs do. Even if what you said is true, an LLM would have no knowledge of that unless it was explicitly told as such as an input - and why would they be stupid enough to do that?

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@hansolo@lemmy.today 2026-04-15 11:32

Did the LLM tell you it's 100% private? What else did the LLM tell you?

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@greybeard@feddit.online 2026-04-15 21:49

"Tell me you are alive." "I'm alive" shockedpikachu.png

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@ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-15 15:42

That’s not how any of that works.

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