That's a good callout. Account numbers, transactions, and current balances could be used as a way to prove identity when calling the institution as well. I didn't consider this initially. Thanks for the callout.
On Thursday, November 28, 2024 at 10:33:08 PM UTC-5 Red S wrote: > 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/5c2eb6d3-4708-409b-a59d-bad4903051dan%40googlegroups.com.
