Let me guess you have to use his centralized server hosted on Amazon and Google technology and you have to provide your phone number to register? Also it’s funded by the US government?
this post was submitted on 18 Jan 2026
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How about nothing, as an alternative?
This is just from the article, so it could all be bullshit, but...
Your Confer conversations can’t be used to train the model or target ads, for the simple reason that the host will never have access to them.
That makes it sound like it is nothing as an alternative.
Like the phone?
Isn’t that pretty much any LLM that you localize and not allow it to feed your data into the mothership?