what ai is actually private in 2026

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Summary

A discussion questioning whether major AI tools offer real privacy, noting that most rely on cloud servers, and asking if local or self-hosted models are a viable alternative.

been seeing all the big ai tools everywhere but none of them really feel private deepseek is china based, gemini is google, copilot is microsoft, openai is still a huge cloud platform with all your data going through servers not trying to start a debate on who is worse but it all kinda feels the same once your prompts leave your machine is there anything out there that actually respects privacy in a real way like local models self hosted stuff or anything that doesnt just rely on sending everything to the cloud. or is privacy just not really a thing with ai right now?
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