local models don’t appear out of the ether. using a local model solves one problem around privacy of your prompts, does little about consolidation of power, and nothing about the thousands of other problems genai brings.
if your organic coffee is made with slave labor, you still have a massive problem.
and they may not be of the devil, but they definitely are of the humans who most resemble the devil.


re-read, it says the opposite: helps a little.
although, tbh, i’m not entirely sure of that either, but the reasoning is complex and longer-term.