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How do you feel about an AI agent being in the distro? There is no privacy with a free AI agent.
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/the-future-of-ai-in-ubuntu/81130
Depends on where the AI is hosted. If you're running a local LLM, all of that data is stored in-house on your PC.
Yeah, and while I’m iffy on Canonical and have migrated off Ubuntu, they do seem to only be focused on local LLMs for those features.