I switched everything to local AI and stopped sending my documents to the cloud

Feb 21, 2026 - 10:30
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I switched everything to local AI and stopped sending my documents to the cloud

For a long time, I didn’t think twice about pasting a contract into ChatGPT, uploading a confidential report to ask for a summary, or feeding a client proposal into a cloud AI tool. Then one day I actually stopped and read a terms of service document (something I’d been lazily skimming for years) and the realization hit me: these files were leaving my machine and living, at least temporarily, on someone else’s servers. And interestingly, I realized that a former colleague had once covered why you shouldn't trust ChatGPT with confidential information. That discomfort sent me looking for a better way.

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