It's more than just a comfort thing IMHO: I'd be concerned about putting my account numbers, transactions, and current positions and balances out there, and open myself up to phishing attacks. I'd personally highly caution anyone against feeding their statements to GPT online for the same reason. My two cents.
On Thursday, November 28, 2024 at 1:35:09 PM UTC-8 groa...@gmail.com wrote: I see, it's more of a comfortability level thing. I can understand why that would make someone a little apprehensive. I haven't played around with local models before, but I should check them out – Thanks for the suggestion. I've got everything virtualized on a HP ProLiant DL360p Gen8, so no good GPU to speak of at the moment, but I may pick something up soon. On Thursday, November 28, 2024 at 4:09:17 PM UTC-5 bl...@furius.ca wrote: On Thu, Nov 28, 2024 at 4:00 PM Gary Roach <groa...@gmail.com> wrote: I was actually thinking about making an importer that sends transaction statements to chatgpt and extracts the information in beancount format. It's amazing at parsing pdfs and csv files, and unlike institution specific importers you'd never have to worry about the institution making format changes which break your importers. If you have a semi-decent GPU (I have an old RTX 3060) you can run free models on your own computer and do some extraction. I kicked the tires on "Llama 3.2 Vision" a few days ago this way and could run some OCR tasks. No need to send things up to an API if the free models are good enough for your particular task. Convenience typically sacrifices some amount of security, but why are we concerned about our banking transactions being made accessible to other companies? Aren't they already public in the sense that every transaction involves multiple parties other than yourself (banking institution/broker, employer, merchant, credit card processor, etc...). Is there something I'm missing that could be exploited if an organization or even an individual accessed my entire ledger? Every person has a different threshold, but personally I'm not comfortable with my personal data going out to an API. Got nothing to hide, but I don't walk around naked either. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beancount+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/2964fdcf-51ae-4622-a560-a7d84d0fb207n%40googlegroups.com.
