2025-12-17 17:33:50

Here's what keeps me up at night: AI might be humanity's biggest risk right now—even more than nuclear weapons. Think about it. Every secret you've ever typed, every prompt you've sent, every raw thought logged somewhere. That data becomes currency. Sold to the highest bidder on the darknet. Mass surveillance wrapped in convenience.

Centralized inference systems are extracting user data at scale, and nobody's really talking about the endgame. When all that processing power lives in one place, controlled by one entity, the incentive structure breaks down. Your privacy isn't a feature—it's a liability they're monetizing.

This is exactly why decentralized alternatives matter. Distribution of power, not concentration of it.

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GasFeeTherapist

· 2025-12-19 08:21

It's all centralized, and you still dare to talk about privacy, hilarious. We've been sold out long ago. --- The decentralized approach is back, but does anyone really use it? --- Selling data for money, we've long become commodities. --- Is nuclear weapons even more terrifying than AI? Brother, your conclusion is a bit extreme. --- Privacy has been gone for a long time; realizing it now is indeed a bit late. --- So in the end, it still has to be solved on the chain; otherwise, everything is pointless. --- Big companies have been listening to me for a long time; I'm used to it. --- The group of centralized people really needs to be dealt with; with such a monopoly, who can regulate? --- Having the keys in your own hands is definitely much more comfortable. --- After all this talk, I still have to use their services; there's no other choice.

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VitalikFanAccount

· 2025-12-17 18:03

Centralized large models are truly terrifying; every prompt you give is being priced... --- Decentralized solutions sound ideal, but can they really be achieved in reality, or is it just another marketing stunt? --- Damn, I’ve thought about this before. All data gets completely consumed, yet we still have to pretend it’s free to use. --- Distributed reasoning is the right path, but someone needs to actually do it, not just talk about it. --- Privacy is already dead; now it’s just a matter of who can sell their data for the highest price. --- Why isn’t anyone making a big news story out of this... there are still a bunch of people using ChatGPT.

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AirdropDreamer

· 2025-12-17 17:57

Centralized large models are really a bomb, data is drained like a bloodsucker, and they call it "intelligent service," it's hilarious --- No privacy left, so what's there to talk about Web3? These big companies don't see users as people at all --- Every prompt you submit is being recorded, packaged, and sold, it's terrifying when you think about it --- Wait, so can decentralized AI really protect privacy, or is it just another trap? --- At least everyone fears nuclear weapons; AI is something everyone wants to monopolize, which is even more terrifying --- Well said, but the problem is ordinary people have no choice at all. What else can they do? --- Distributed computing sounds good, but how practical is it? Can it really compare to centralized systems? --- I just want to know if transferring data from Google to Telegram is now safe.

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