GoKawiilSecurity engineer urges switch from OpenAI, Anthropic to open-weight AI models
A software and security engineer, writing after reading Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor's 'End Times Fascism,' argues that users should stop paying OpenAI and Anthropic and instead adopt open-weight models. The author says these alternatives now match ChatGPT and Claude on complex tasks like vulnerability research, and can be run privately on personal hardware or through providers such as Tinfoil, which uses secure enclaves. They note that closed models from OpenAI and Anthropic cannot offer true privacy because the companies retain the ability to view user activity.