[prepend]

The world is going to split into “cheap AI” that runs in the cloud and is free or heavily subsidized by selling your data and giving you biased functionality toward the AI provider and “expensive AI” that runs completely locally and has no or limited outbound connectivity and is solely biased toward the user desires. Hopefully this comes in open source as it will be hard to write and expensive to run on local hardware.

[DamonHD]

Nothing is ever so binary.

Our product can run completely locally and do a good job. Allow connectivity to other devices in the building and performance improves. Extend connectivity to our cloud servers and it gets a little better still. You can always revert to lower levels (and an Internet outage would simulate that, for example).

We regard your data as yours unless you want to share it for a specific reason.