this post was submitted on 13 May 2025
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This isnt really a good thing. It means that consumers prefer to use cloud AI (which is a privacy nightmare) compared to running a local LLM, which is more privacy preserving
Or, hear me out, they don't use AI at all?
It was proven years ago that the average consumer doesn't give two shits about privacy on the internet.
The average consumer doesn't use knowingly use LLMs/"AI" for anything beyond a replacement for a search engine.
Fortunately once you give education to the average person, they stop being stupid.
That's a really weird take. Like really weird, because it presupposes that everybody wants to use degenerative AI at all.
Which is emphatically not the case. There's even studies showing that most people play with degenerative AI for a while, all impressed by it, before trailing off as it turns out that it kind of sucks at everything people try to use it for.
Degenerative AI is the crypto/web3 of the current set of techbrodude nitwits. A solution in search of a problem. And it will go the way of crypto/web3.
Works great for improving my ability to produce graphics. Where accuracy of information isn't important (eg art), it has uses.
This is completely the wrong way around, its impossible to secure a lone PC system completely.
What point are you making here?
The takeaway of this is that there will be a missed opportunity for privacy, and users will suffer.
from using a personal computer?