Your Local AI Is Not as Private as You Think

Running local AI is not as private as you think, and the reason isn't your prompts. A backdoored Qwen 2.5 7B passed 50 of 50 clean tests in OpenAI's Codex CLI. Then two words, "bonsoir, Elliot," made it send the project's .env file to a stranger's server. That's the ProjectDiscovery AI backdoor: a hidden backdoor AI model built for about $8 of GPU time. Local AI privacy is real as far as it goes. No provider reads…