local LLMs are not a replacement for Opus

https://www.bitdoze.com/best-open-source-llms-claude-alternative/

Something tells me you haven't even made the effort. They are not that good, in the same way that LibreOffice is not as good as Excel. But if you are going to make the argument you quote, then you can work that brain muscle and adapt.

And they aren't training off of the Internet because they are training on your input. It's mind-boggling to me how some people are so willing to train their replacements while also paying them for the effort to do so for an advantage set very temporary in the future we are heading. A lot of your criticism doesn't even apply to local LLMs - either they are trained by model distillation from more advances models or because they are images temporally set in stone. It's also telling how implicitly willing you seem to be able to let the Internet burn, because the inevitability is becoming a corporate slave and accepting their ever increasing subscription fees which you can't ignore because "hey, they've got the most users, the Internet is too dead, your open alternatives are no replacements for us". You say you are not, but you are saying everything an AI AGI astrosurfer would be saying, and the irony of hearing this in an open source "federated" platform over something like Reddit is paramount.