NLP Chatbot: Build Your Own Privacy-Preserving AI Assistant

Create your own local running chat application with a local LLM: This is a step-by-step guide to building a privacy-preserving and anonymous AI assistant for your daily use cases.

Christian Bernecker
5 min readJan 25, 2024
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Why privacy matters?

There are several reasons why someone might choose to run a local LLM (Language Model) instead of using a provider like OpenAI. Here are some:

  • Control over the data that is being processed and stored
  • Ability to comply with data protection regulations such as GDPR or CCPA
  • Transparency how your data is being processed

Privacy can be particularly important for organizations or individuals who are concerned about the potential misuse of their data by a third-party service.

What does a basic chat app needs?

For a basic chat app, it’s important to have a user interface (UI) that allows users to easily input questions and see the responses generated by the large language model (LLM). This can be achieved through a simple text-based interface or a more visually graphical user interface (GUI). In this article we will focus on…

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Christian Bernecker

AI enthusiast, speaker, and software developer passionate about leveraging technology to improve the world. Always happy to share knowledge and connect.