Run Your Own AI: The Spiritual Case for Owning Your Tools
Think about what people tell AI systems now. Journal entries and their patterns. Dreams, in the morning, before the details dissolve. Grief, at 3 a.m., in sentences never said to a living person. Questions about faith, marriage, medication, and meaning that used to be whispered to confessors or buried in locked diaries. Nearly all of it flows through rented minds running on other people’s computers, under terms of service nobody reads, in logs nobody controls. This arrangement has become so normal so fast that its strangeness needs pointing out, and so does the alternative, which almost nobody outside the software world knows exists. You can run the mind at home. ...