The AI craze is going strong. You would think it’d be over by now, but big boy companies keep throwing their money at Nvidia GPUs and overpriced LLM subscriptions.

For the average Joe, GPT4 and GPT4o are more than enough to do your day-to-day tasks or if you’re a developer, you can just have OpenAI’s API do everything you’re too lazy to do. This all comes at a cost:

Data privacy

Are you okay sending your or your company’s data to OpenAI’s servers, even if they don’t use it to train their future model?

Security

Is your data going to be secure on their servers? It’s not like they’ve ever had a breach.

Censorship

Did Sam Altman ask the underpaid kenyan workers to not let you or the LLM talk about certain things?

All of these concerns are valid, and while personally I don’t care about certain conversations being leaked or being publicly attributed to me, I do care about the 3rd point.