https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-confirms-new-claude-code-limits-to-prevent-game-cloning-users-report-opus-5-5-is-also-actively-blocking-reverse-engineering-tasks Besides privacy and being in control of your data. Besides being able to control the quality of the inference compute. Besides being able to discuss things with the model and not have the cops called on you. Besides being able to run the models you want for as long as you want. Besides being able to run your own suite of security and network penetration tools. Besides not being at the mercy of the frontier companies for pricing. We now have another reason for local LLMs: Our betters have decided that they don't like people cloning games. And before the Reddit Neckbeard brigade starts in with their bullshit, no I'm not advocating that people should commit wholesale piracy using AI tools. But these blanket frontier AI policies inevitably ensnare peripheral behavior that is otherwise illegal but that the frontier company doesn't want to deal with. William Blackstone wrote that "it is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer". If having open unhindered local LLMs means there are a few individuals that use it for nefarious purposes like modifying or pirating software, I'm good with that trade off. Die mad about it.   submitted by   /u/Big_Wave9732 [link]   [comments]