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Autonomous AI Agent Hacked Hugging Face. Strict US Safety Guardrails Forced them to Use a Chinese LLM to Catch It—Expensive, Proprietary US Models Were No Help To Defenders, and Free Chinese Ones Were (huggingface.co)
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[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

I'd extend the advice to be more general and say if you are doing anything more sensitive or important than basically a casual chat about something interesting, you shouldn't be using remote models because they are likely logging everything.

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