[the_snooze]

These benefits make sense up-front, but we have 15+ years of direct experience with "democratizing" technology that ultimately end up ensnaring people. Unless you get these benefits from a local model, you're establishing a deep dependency on an AI service provider whose interests may not necessarily align with yours.

[inadequatespace]

My sentiments exactly. Incidentally IMO this is arguably more of an anti-authoritative argument, i.e. down on the y-axis, rather than "left" on the x-axis, of the political compass.