For now. This is going to devolve into either "openAI has to do this, so you do too" or "we shouldn't have to do this because nobody else does!" and my money is not on the latter outcome.
> —after news organizations suing over copyright claims accused the AI company of destroying evidence.
Like, none of the AI companies are going to avoid copyright related lawsuits long term until things are settled law.
See the whole LIBOR chat business.
They have a fair bit. Local models lets companies sell you a much more expensive bit of hardware. Once Apple gets their stuff together it could end up being a genius move to go all in on local after the others have repeated scandals of leaking user data.
And how many companies have proprietary code hosted on Github?
We've always done self-hosted as old as things like gerrit and what not that aren't even really feature complete as competitors where I've worked.
Well, it is gonna be all _AI Companies_ very soon so unless everyone switches to local models which don't really have the same degree of profitability as a SaaS, its probably not going to kill a company to have less user privacy because tbh people are used to not having privacy these days on the internet.
It certainly will kill off the few companies/people trusting them with closed source code or security related stuff but you really should not outsource that anywhere.