United Kingdom, Jan. 14 -- Signal founder Moxie Marlinspike has launched a private open-source AI chatbot.

The platform's creator has admitted despite being a fan of large language models, he has some reservations around privacy on many of the AI platforms, and he has developed Confer with this in mind.

He wrote in a blog post: "Confer is designed to be a service where you can explore ideas without your own thoughts potentially conspiring against you someday;

"A service that breaks the feedback loop of your thoughts becoming targeted ads becoming thoughts;

"A service where you can learn about the world - without data brokers and future training runs learning about you instead."

He added that the process has been created to ensure use...