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All those people with AI friends, boyfriends, girlfriends.
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Yes, everyone who has an AI boyfriend or girlfriend should make sure that they use only open source models that nobody can take away. Even if a particular cloud service stops hosting them at least you can make other arrangements. And the nice thing is those other arrangements should generally get cheaper over time, and that's nice, when your significant other gets cheaper over time.

In the modern world, it's just critically important that you exert full control over your SO. You wouldn't want them to run off and leak your most intimate secrets to others without your knowledge or control. I'm sure a lot of us could tell stories about our SOs that we didn't fully control and how they ended up leaking a lot of critical information about us. So full control is definitely mandatory in any SO relationship. It's really just prudent

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