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Show HN: ChatGPT code interpreter on sensitive data without uploading it (github.com/silvanmelchior)
7 points by silvanmelchior on Aug 3, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


Hi HN

When ChatGPT code interpreter came out, I was amazed about it's capabilities. But at the same time, in my company, I often had the problem that I couldn't upload some sensitive data, so I couldn't use it for stuff where I would have been much faster than writing a small script.

That's why I built a tool which tries to solve this: It's not an easy trade-off between privacy and capabilities and I would be very interested in your judgement whether you think this is a useful solution.

How does it work? - It uses OpenAI functions to connect the remote GPT-4 model with a local Python code interpreter - The interpreter runs in a local docker container which has access to a folder with your (potentially sensitive) data - There is a UI in which you approve inputs and outputs of the interpreter

The difficult tradeoff is not leaking your data, but allowing the model to know enough about it that it can work with it. For an image that's easy for example, but for a spreadsheet much harder.

If you have the time, I would be very interested in what you think about it.

Thanks!




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