By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 28/07/2026After I explain that running a chatbot on my machine uses no more carbon than, say, applying a blur effect to an image in my image editor, they tell me I'm unwisely giving my private data to the AI companies. 12/ 1320
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 28/07/2026Then I show them the network logs that demonstrate that my local chatbot doesn't send or receive *any* network data. 13/ 1340
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 28/07/2026Then they turn to the alleged cognitive effects of using a chatbot to find typos. I explain that I'm not asking an AI to write for me or explain things to me. I'm asking it to point out where I've forgotten to put a period at the end of a paragraph, or fatfingered a word like "ever" as "every." 14/craphound.com 1300
