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Comment by spaceman_2020

1 month ago

If you want to be completely watertight, you can absolutely run an on premises model. No data ever leaves your network, ever. Some pretty good models run on $5-10k hardware

Can’t do that with SaaS

Also, I’m baffled that on HN of all places, I have to actually defend the idea of rolling your own apps and protecting your data from cloud providers

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bandrami  1 month ago

Wait of course I was assuming a local model. People aren't using hosted AI on machines holding data that they care about being exfiltrated, right?

  • heavyset_go  1 month ago

    > People aren't using hosted AI on machines holding data that they care about being exfiltrated, right?

    If only