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I Actually Spied on My "Local AI". Didn’t Expect This!

RepoChad· 13.8K subscribers

10d ago · English audio

Is your local AI actually private? I ran a full packet capture on my Mac mini, installed Ollama, LM Studio, Jan and llama.cpp, and fed every one of them a fake password and a fake social security number to see what leaves the machine. The chat itself sent zero packets. Everything around the chat is another story: hourly check-ins you can't turn off, model searches routed through the app's own servers, cloud models…

4.5×Score at discovery
100.7KViews
22.2KMedian · 41 videos

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This score was measured on Wed, 04 Nov 2026 15:04:18 GMT. Current view counts may differ.

100.6K views ÷ a 22.2K baseline = 4.5×. Compared with 41 earlier videos from the same channel, matching the format recorded at scoring time. Older-upload baseline: reference videos had at least as long to gain views. This comparison is not age-matched.

YouTube snapshot: Wed, 04 Nov 2026 19:00:55 GMT. Counters may have changed.

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Channel-balanced percentile: 91

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22 videos from 12 other channels, with each channel weighted equally. Same format and language, with 10,000–99,999 subscribers. Observed at 247 hours after publication, within ±48 hours.

The comparison uses this broader topic because the specific niche has too few examples. This describes the collected sample, not all of YouTube. Updated Wed, 04 Nov 2026 19:03:07 GMT.

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