OpenAI, Google, and Meta, for example, can push back against most excessive government demands.
Sure they "can" but do they?
this post was submitted on 31 Jan 2025
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They cannot. When big daddy FBI knocks on the door and you get that forced NDA you, will build in backdoors and comply with anything the US government tells you.
Even then the US might want to you to shut down because they want to control your company.
TikTok.
Why do that when you can just score a deal with the government to give them whatever information they want for sweet perks like foreign competitors getting banned?
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It’s simple: 
bad.
CHYNA
Well you just made me choke on my laughter. Well done, well done.
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To be fair its correct but it's poor writing to skip the self hosted component. These articles target the company not the model.
There are many llms you can use offline
Including DeepSeek: https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai
Deepseek works reasonably well, even at cpu only in ollama. I ran the 7b and 1.5b models and it wasn't awful. 7b slowed down as the convo went on, but the 1.5b model felt pretty passable while I was playing with it