Sooo... Are they going to say which local model they're using? Because they keep touting privacy without talking about the actual AI, why would I use it instead of https://duck.ai/ ?
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Do we trust any AI to return accurate results?
Ok, sometimes they do.
I mean, come on. Tried asking something very, very basic instead of humorous prompting and keep getting the same wrong answer because like all AI it has to return something instead of "I don't know." Hell, in this case it should be able to just say they are not known because that is the lore.
Emperor's Children are the IIIrd, White Scars are the Vth Legion.
The IInd and XIth legions are the lost legions that have been erased from history, and this has been the same factual data since the 80s!
Giving themselves and deepseek a tick for "opens source code to the public" seems rather disingenuous. Think what you want about Deepseek, you can download their models and run them fully locally. Doesn't seem to be possible with whatever model Proton is using here.
If that tick is there because other Proton projects publish source code, that's a bit silly.
Open source the model then you cowards