"AI isn't going anywhere, and everyone knows that by now. People around the world are using AI for just about any reason or task that you can imagine. I know people who consider the AI chatbots to be friends. I also know people who look at AI as a tool for research. And then there are those who use AI to write correspondence and other types of documents."
"When most people use AI, they tend to use the likes of ChatGPT, Mistral, Copilot, Gemini, or Claude. Those services are cloud-hosted and certainly have their benefits. Others (like myself) always opt for locally installed AI first. I have my reasons. What is locally installed AI? As the name implies, locally installed AI means that you've installed everything necessary on your personal desktop (or server) and are able to use it just like you would use a cloud-hosted solution."
"I'm a very private person, and would rather not have my AI usage scraped and used by a third party. I don't want a company using my AI interactions to train their LLMs, nor do I want those third parties to use my chats to create a profile of me for targeted ads. That's part of the beauty that comes along with local AI: you don't have to worry about these things."
AI use continues to expand across personal and professional tasks, including companionship, research, correspondence, and document creation. Most users rely on cloud-hosted services such as ChatGPT, Mistral, Copilot, Gemini, or Claude, which offer benefits but collect and process interaction data. Locally installed AI runs on personal desktops or servers and replicates cloud functionality without sending queries offsite. Local installations can be quick to set up (for example, Ollama and its desktop app) and can operate free of third-party telemetry. Local AI prevents companies from mining interactions to train models or build targeted-ad profiles, keeping user data private.
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