Let's not forget that, at the same time, Google forces every developer of any Android app to register in the Google database using an ID scan, otherwise no one can install it.
Let's say, then, that it's not so much "dumb and wasteful" as "energy inefficient". In fact, this can be quite wise in a modern world full of surveillance-as-a-business and "us-east-1 disasters"
Can you elaborate the last statement? Don't quite understand why loading local LLM to GPU RAM, using it for the job and then "ejecting" is "dumb and wasteful" idea?
Classic problem: "Who do you love more: mum or dad?" ;) Surely it's naive thinking but as the EU citizen I feel like I've got a little more influence on "European censorship" than on any other. I suppose that ASML feels the same way
Maybe it can not spy on you but models can be totally (e.g. politically) biased depending on the country of origin. Try to ask european-, us- or china-trained models about "Tiananmen Massacre" and compare the answers. Or consider Trump's recent decisions to get rid of "woke" AI models.
"The story, then, is everywhere. It is the founding myth of our system of economic relations. It is so deeply established in common sense, even in places like Madagascar, that most people on earth couldn’t imagine any other way that money possibly could have come about. The problem is there’s no evidence that it ever happened, and an enormous amount of evidence suggesting that it did not.”
All for the sake of "dear user safety".