Comment on Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI

• chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Software that is designed not to send your data over the internet doesn’t collect your data. That’s what local-only means. If it does send your data over the internet, then it isn’t local-only. How is it still happening?

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  • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    it does. it locally aggregates, collects data about what you do on your computer across the days and weeks.

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    • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But the company hasn’t collected it, because it doesn’t have it. Your computer has it. So long as it stays on your computer, it cannot harm your privacy. That’s why there is such a big difference here; an actual massive loss of privacy, vs a potential risk of loss of privacy.

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