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Recently a user posted a comment on one of my posts about Qwen secretly sending information over the internet even if run locally.

Is there any privacy concern for locally run models to share your conversations or data? What if they can connect to the internet via a tool or MCP?

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[–] venusaur@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thanks! Is Qwen considered trustworthy?

I’ll check out a network sniffer.

[–] TheCornCollector@piefed.zip 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I trust them as much as Google, Meta, or any other big tech company. I won’t use their cloud services, but I do run there local models.

[–] venusaur@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

For sure. Thanks!