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Comment by IOT_Apprentice | Hacker News Reader

Local is private. You are not handing over your data to An AI for training.

Most major providers have EULAs that specify that they don’t keep your data and don’t use it for training.

Considering how most major providers got their data to begin with these are EULAs that are probably impossible to enforce, and none of the major players have given much reason to believe they would stick to it anyway. And why bother when local models don't have nearly the same complications?

This is FUD.

Millions of businesses trust Google and Microsoft with their spreadsheets, emails, documents, etc… The EULAs are very similar.

If any major provider was caught violating the terms of these agreements they’d lose a massive amount of business! It’s just not worth it.

Right. And the former CEO of Google basically explained their operating procedure. You go and steal everything, you break the rules, "then you have your lawyers clean all that up" when you get caught.

https://youtu.be/pvcK9X4XEF8?si=9j2ELkbXxHGoZEnZ&t=1157

> ...if you're a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, which hopefully all of you will be, is if it took off then you'd hire a whole bunch of lawyers to go clean the mess up, right. But if nobody uses your product it doesn't matter that you stole all the content.

> This is FUD.

Yeah. Because I have tons and tons of fear, uncertainty and doubt about how these giga-entities control so many aspects of my life. Maybe I shouldn't be spreading it but on the other hand they are so massively huge that any FUD I spread will have absolutely no effect on how they operate. If you want to smell real FUD go sniff Microsoft[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty,_and_doubt#M...

And my car doesn't keep full precision logs of it's location according to the terms that I agree to every time I drive somewhere.

But it turns out they did /do.

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