I’m really not fond of the profiling by automated means, but it seems like an inevitable consequence of the design of the threadiverse. Everything is public and easily accessible by anyone that would like to profile you.

I certainly disapprove of moderation based on ideology. Moderation should be based on quality of the content and if it fits in the publicly readable rules. Definitely not some hidden analytics or if the user completely fits in the in-group of the moderator.

I will admit that this might be a good way to find and filter out LLM based bots that are only there to promote or manipulate the conversation. But it should still be done according to public rules.

I trust them as much as Google, Meta, or any other big tech company. I won’t use their cloud services, but I do run there local models.

I think I saw a similar comment on here last month. It was a user saying that Gemma claimed to send his chats to Google. Which is clearly a hallucination.

I’m not a professional or expert on anything security and/or AI related but this is my take:

• In general there will not be data sent anywhere if you use the big/trustworthy open-source backends.
• Unless there are bigger security issues the model files shouldn’t contain such code.
• Data could be sent using MCP/tool calling but you can see each tool call as it is happening so it can’t be hidden.

If you really don’t trust something you can always try to use a network sniffer