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Companies should run their own local AI on their proprietary data instead of avoiding AI.
Their wordsThere’s nothing stopping an organization from running their own local AI that is trained on their own proprietary data, and trained in a way that doesn’t get communicated back to the Silicon Valley Overlords. We’re going to see companies that get this (Apple is one), and companies that don’t (the Sigma comment would indicate that they currently don’t).
Their wordsThat’s actually the real danger of AI at the moment: who’s directing it at what? I’ve found the currently available AI—even the LLM that I run on the Mac I’m typing this on—to be an accelerant to what I know and what I’m doing.
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