Thoughts on AI and Privacy

It still baffles me that so many people are willing to completely give up their privacy out of fascination with the possibilities of AI. Personally, I don’t think it’s proportionate to feed all my notes and thoughts to Claude Code, for example, just so it can clean up my Obsidian Vault. I mean, the tech giants may promise to respect their users' privacy, but hey, these companies illegally downloaded the entire knowledge of the world, so why should they respect my privacy in particular? As long as it’s not possible to accomplish something similar locally on my computer, this technology is out of the question for me - even if the temptation is great.