SF billboards slam cloud AI for stealing data; blogger predicts decade of on-device iPhone assistants
brandon_xyzw · x · 2026-11-03
Someone bought every billboard in the SF Bay Area to campaign that "BIG AI IS STEALING OUR DATA — go LOCAL." brandonxyzw responds that iPhones 20 through 30 will ship state-of-the-art local chat assistants competitive with the cloud for a decade-plus, whether that's Siri or an underdog — a sign that on-device AI and data privacy are being packaged as marketing angles.
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