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I listened to an interview a while back with the researchers did this analysis. They developed privacy-preserving techniques, avoiding having to read user conversations directly.

This is Anthropic we're talking about, they're rightly recognized as the 'ethical' AI company.


There would be even better privacy if they published the weights so that they could be run by third parties that have no log policies or even better, locally.


Words I typed into a service I paid for are now in a huggingface repo. Fuck that.


Are they?


They aren't.


So, how about a startup for baby food / prenatals that shows transparent, third party testing for plastic compounds and heavy metals? I'm serious, would love to do this.


I love this idea. I hope to see this type of testing for everyday food as well. Here are some hurtles you might run across

* Can you source low plastic baby food, or low plastic food to process into baby food? Seems like large quantities of the food supply are contaminated.

* How can you comparatively advertise your low test results compared to the competition without being the victim of lawsuits? Lawsuits from established companies feels inevitable, but being involved in a lawsuit can harm funding rounds for startups, even if it’s baseless.

* Would brick & motor stores want to deal with you if you are essentially calling the rest of their products poison?

* Will you need special tools for processing the food that introduces minimal plastics?


For your third question -- there are already lots of products on the market in certain stores (Costco, Whole Foods, co-ops) that have third party testing or claims about purity.


> Fish are aggregators of this stuff so that's not surprising.

I doubt the BPA in fish originates from the fish themselves. It's more likely from the can linings used to package the fish.


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