Signal creator Moxie Marlinspike wants to do for AI what he did for messaging

Personal data cannot reasonably be expected to remain private on major LLM platforms, because most online data can be obtained with a subpoena and data breaches occur regularly. Smaller alternatives such as Confer, Lumo and Venice are presented as keeping user data out of that system. Proton's Lumo encrypts conversations, data and metadata with a key only the user holds, and Venice stores all data locally on the user's device. The article notes that big platforms' opt-out promises often carry carve-outs for human review and terms-of-service enforcement.