Comment by sheepscreek
5 days ago
No, that’s not the point. I think this is to help people who are thinking about getting a beefier Mac so they can run their LLMs on it too. Some in particular want a dedicated Mac Mini or Studio for this purpose. The breakdown, even if slightly flawed, offers a good insight into the economics of it.
For most people, they might be better off with OpenRouter models and providers supporting Zero Data Retention. On the cloud, that’s as good as it gets for privacy - your data is never retained beyond the life of the request.
> your data is never retained beyond the life of the request.
Like with OpenAI for a year?
” In June 2025, the court ordered OpenAI to retain its consumer and API customer chat logs indefinitely, including any that had been deleted, so they could be investigated […]”
https://www.techspot.com/news/109839-openai-no-longer-requir...
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