What do you think about Lumo AI?

Its AI, I don’t use it because I have enough head issues I don’t need to add rot to it.

Here is what I think of it:

The European Open Source AI Index was critical of Proton describing Lumo as “open source”, calling Lumo “the least open ‘open’ AI assistant” and stating that Proton had “open-sourced neither the Lumo system prompt nor the mysterious routing methods that decide which model will handle [the user’s] query”. The index wrote that “the only open source code we have found is for the Lumo mobile and web apps. Proton calling the Lumo AI assistant open source based on that is a bit like Microsoft calling Windows open source just because there’s a github repository for Windows Terminal”.

The best form of AI to use, if you want to use AI at all, is local AI.

Run it solely on your machine. This will torment your poor hardware, but it keeps everything at home.

I’m not gonna shit on Proton as they are… decent as far as I am aware. The mascot is cute, but the best way to keep it private is keep it to yourself.

Proton claims it’s privacy respecting but it’s still developed with stolen data, it’s still bad for mental health, promotes deskilling, and bad for the environment. It’s one of the reasons I downgraded my Unlimited to the free tier.

Not familiar with it specifically, but… if you want privacy using LLMs, run local models on your own computer. Anything else is just asking for a rug pull eventually – regardless of the intentions of whoever set up the service originally.

Ad

The mascot is very cute. But I don’t trust the claim that it’s private. Nor do I have use for AI assistants. I only need them very rarely.

I only use AI sporadically in specific cases, but if I do I use Lumo.

It’s out of the box solution that claims to be pruvacy respecting and has Proton behind it so to me it’s what I need, if I need it. I don’t use any mainstream ones.to compare, but I feel like it’s at least as helpful as the AI I’m pushed to use in work.

It’s shit, but I haven’t tried it.