A friendly reminder that APIs are rented, local weights are forever
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Anthropic just nuked Fable 5 globally to comply with a sudden US export ban because they couldn't instantly verify the nationality of their cloud users. Let this be a massive reminder to the community: if the weights aren't running on your own hardware, you don't actually control your AI.
Cloud APIs mean renting intelligence at the mercy of corporate compliance and government panic. They will happily take your data and pull the plug the second a model gets "too capable." Keep buying RAM, hosting your own rigs, and downloading the quants. Local models are our only true guarantee of privacy and digital independence.
Stay Local, Stay independent.
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