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by howmayiannoyyou 36 days ago
I can't bring myself to use any model that trains or sends telemetry back to my country's primary competitor/adversary. I don't care how much money is saved.
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That is understandable. Just don't do it. No need to announce it.
assuming that country is the united states, why not? seems like an honourable thing to do if anything, lol
Yeah, I prefer my data to be used and trained by the very trustworthy and benevolent tech oligarchs in my home country.
The Shanghai government surveillance drones are mobile, whereas the Flock government surveillance cameras are stationary! USA FTW, liberty and justice for all
Also on the front page

"Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins settlement after lawsuit" and "The FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers"

Gotta love how the US is the bastion of free speech, justice and liberty!

On some level, it's the lesser of two evils. Both do suck as options, I agree.
As somebody in Europe, uh, that doesn't leave many options.
Look around for EU LLM routers. There are some, but none are as big as OpenRouter. Still, Cortecs (Austria) is quite good and offers a couple of recent models through its EU-based providers. Zero data retention, GDPR compliant, etc. Really nice.

https://cortecs.ai/serverlessModels