Handling confidential client material, this lawyer avoids sending anything to a cloud API regardless of a vendor's privacy claims, and uses a local model for document review, writing, and editing. They're currently running it on an ordinary gaming PC and are underwhelmed with the results, and are weighing a 128GB Mac Studio to get something more usable. The concern is less about a specific leak than the general risk of betting client confidentiality on a third party's data handling.
VERIFIABLE SOURCE
View comment Reported anonymously by an r/LocalLLM contributor · score 86