What Thom Hogan thinks about Silicon Valley
American photographer and writer on cameras, known for his Nikon books and reviews at bythom.com, zsystemuser.com and dslrbodies.com, and earlier an author of books on personal computers.
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1 dated position, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Thom Hogan has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingCompanies 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).
↗Protecting Proprietary Platformsbythom.com 1st of 2 in this piece