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if you're selfhosting AI, make sure you at least firewall it off from the internet. many providers still send metrics back home that includes usage and content.
Respectfully, that's not really how local LLMs work.
A GGUF model sitting on my hard drive has no ability to "send content back home" any more than a PDF or a JPEG does. If you're running something like llama.cpp or Ollama entirely locally, the model weights are just data files.
The real privacy concerns are cloud APIs, telemetry in front-ends, browser extensions, analytics, update services, or accidentally exposing a service to the public internet.
"Self-hosted AI" isn't one thing. There's a huge difference between:
Firewalling internet-facing services is good advice. Assuming every local model is secretly uploading prompts is not.
EDIT: for the record, I didn't down vote you - that was someone else.