My new thesis is that LLMs ("AI") is the latest marketing scam to collect data.
Discussion
Waiting for the day that someone makes a good open source localized Ai
yeah, they log the prompts etc
https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/think-ai-is-a-safe-place-to-share-your-secrets-think-again
https://thehackernews.com/2025/01/deepseek-ai-database-exposed-over-1.html?m=1
no longer a secret (if it was ever).
you can host some locally to be sure it stays on your box, but it's a bit of a hassle and may not be as cutting edge and fast as the remote ones from big players