Technology

I literally run deepseek r1 on my laptop via ollama, and many other models, nothing gets sent to anybody. Granted, it's the smaller 7b parameter model, but still plenty good.

Microsoft could easily host the full model on their infrastructure if they needed it.

(Premise - suppose I accept that there is such a definable thing as capitalism)

Because people praising capitalism understand it just as badly as people blaming it for all problems, usually.

People blaming capitalism for everything then build a country that imports grain, while before them and after them it's among the largest exporters on the planet (if we combine Russia and Ukraine for the "after" metric, no pun intended). There's a common Soviet joke about Sahara, communism and deficits of sand. Or these people build a country which is "not capitalist" because there are no two corporations on its territory, only one, which is also the government, but its interactions with the rest of the world are like corporate b2b and their interactions with their citizens are like corporate cities in China. Or both. Or they don't build anything and don't react to grim reality, because it's more pleasant to whine about climate change when their chances at good future are being murdered much faster in the political and social field.

People praising capitalism create conditions in which there's no reason to praise it. Like, it's competitive - they kill competitiveness with patents, IP, very complex legal systems. It's self-regulating and self-optimizing - they make regulations and do bailouts preventing sick companies from dying, make laws after their interests, then reactively make regulations to make conditions with them existing bearable, which have a side effect of killing smaller companies. It's voluntary - they intentionally create levers which mafias in control of governments use to introduce violent pressure as normal part of the system, thus slowly people owning huge chunks of economies are also members of ruling clans.

That's the problem, both "socialist" and "capitalist" ideal systems ignore ape power dynamics. Both imply that humans act altruistically or in their own best interest in the framework of assumed moral borders. Except those borders don't exist. Such systems should be designed on top of the fact that jungle law is always allowed, similarly governments and people and ideologies and your friends lie to you more often than they say truth. You can't assume if you want to devise something with a chance to work.

Yeah the whole "capitalism fuels innovation" thing is dead. Anyone that still believes this is braindead. It optimizes towards killing competition by any means, not innovating.

Ever heard about software devs not being able to work on personal projects because all the code they produce, even off the clock is owned by their employer?

I mean if It’s only for business machines I get it. If you want a proper silo where your ip and isn’t going to be stolen by an LLM, any organization should run an in house self hosted model that is trained on their own data and doesn’t pass data back to the upstream. That just makes sense. Especially if it just passes your work to your competitors.

I mean if we ever properly gleam information from LLMs, it’ll be the biggest source of leaks and whistleblowing ever created from video games to National security. Don’t use cloud hosted llms if you want privacy and security.

Absolutely. Companies have every right to control what tools are authorized to use on their hardware, and what touches their data or users data. It could be as complex as security or as simple as don't use a competing service, but it all makes sense. Don't tell me how use my stuff and I won't tell you how to use yours.

If it's BYOD then that's another multiple layers of cans of worms not worth getting into.

Atleast we know its by humans