alt Hacker NewsDon't you think there is a market for people who want services that have provable privacy even if it costs 1,000 times more? It's not as big a segment as Dropbox but I imagine it's there.
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If we are talking 1000x more latency, that is a pretty hard sell.
Something that normally takes 30 seconds now takes over 8 hours.
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For the equivalent of $500 in credit you could self host the entire thing!
For LLM inference, the market that will pay $20,000 for what is now $20 is tiny.
there is, it's called governments. however this technology is so slow that using it in mission critical systems (think communication / coordinates during warfare) that it is not feasible IMO.
the parent post is right, confidential compute is really what we've got.
Honestly, no? Unless you get everyone using said services, then a market that is only viable to people trying to hide bad behavior becomes the place you look for people doing bad things?
This is a large part of why you have to convince people to hide things even if "they have nothing to hide."
For most this would mean only specially treating a subset of all the sensitive data they have.
FHE solves privacy-from-compute-provider and doesn't affect any other privacy risks of the services. The trivial way to get privacy from the compute provider is to run that compute yourself - we delegate compute to cloud services for various reasonable efficiency and convenience reasons, but a 1000-fold less efficient cloud service usually isn't competitive with just getting a local device that can do that.