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by outofpaper 131 days ago
As misleading. Lots of their marketing push or at least thr ClawBros pitch it as running local on your MacMini.
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To be fair, you do keep significantly more control of your own data from a data portability perspective! A MEMORY.md file presents almost zero lock-in compared to some SaaS offering.

Privacy-wise, of course, the inference provider sees everything.

To be clear: keeping a local copy of some data provides not control over how the remote system treats that data once it’s sent.
Which is what I said in my second sentence.
It’s worse than “[they] can see everything.” They can share it.
Is it not a given that anyone that gets access to a piece of information is also capable of sharing it?