Escaping the Cloud: Are There Truly Private AI Tools in 2026?
BoldElara92 · reddit · 2026-08-03
A user raised concerns about the privacy of mainstream AI tools. They argued that whether it's DeepSeek, Gemini, Copilot, or OpenAI, once prompts leave the local machine for cloud servers, the privacy risks are fundamentally the same. They asked the community for genuinely privacy-respecting alternatives, such as local models or self-hosted setups, and questioned whether absolute privacy is still a realistic expectation in the current AI landscape.
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