Users are pasting bank statements and medical reports into cloud AI — the case for local open models
alex_verem · x · 2026-10-12
shirishh lists what people confess to AI: biometrics, exact salaries and debts, bank statements, full medical reports, confidential files, passwords and API keys, breakup drafts, 2am therapy sessions. alexverem argues telling people to stop won't work — what matters is where the data goes: cloud chatbots live on someone else's server under someone else's rules, which is why local open models are needed.
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