I don’t get it. It says nothing leaves your computer, but it’s sending things to OpenRouter, not running models locally. Perhaps I am dumb (and I always feel dumb after reading an AI generated README for yet another AI tool Tbf)

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3s 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Yes it appears your personal data IS being sent to open router and the model provider here. The problem I think is that a lot of people (especially in the openclaw community) mistake “I run it on my mac mini” to mean their data is private. Meanwhile all data is being shipped off for training to anthropic via openrouter and both of those parties see everything.

I guess you could theoretically plug in a local model here but of course the readme should be more precise here when talking about privacy

	▲	hrmtst93837 2 days ago \| parent [-]
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_ache_ 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Yes. OpenYak is local-first. Your conversations and files are stored only on your machine. When using cloud models, only API calls to LLM providers leave your computer.

So local-first and still upload files to cloud models if you configure it.

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Barbing 2 days ago | parent [-]

>only API calls

Given the software‘s broad appeal, I’d rephrase to make it more clear every word/file you send would leave your computer.

	▲	_ache_ 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Absolutely, that is misleading to not-much-technical people, maybe intentionally. Does not inspire confidence.

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gbalduzzi 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I read it as "everything controlled by us is local first and we do not collect any data about you"

I agree that someone may misunderstand their phrasing though

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hrmtst93837 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You're reading it correctly: it's a thin OpenRouter wrapper calling itself local while your prompts still leave the machine.

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jstummbillig 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> It says nothing leaves your computer

Where does it say that?

It sends to OpenRouter if you chose to use OpenRouter. Can use Ollama. Idk how to get more local than that? Any tool will be non-local, when you do something explicitly non-local.

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raincole 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

> run locally via Ollama

Are you saying this part is a lie?

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girvo 2 days ago | parent [-]

Yes.

In that I'm saying their AI generated slop README is misleading enough to be lying.

When you prominently say "all without uploading anything to the cloud." but the default does exactly that, a single half-sentence mentioning Ollama doesn't cut it.

	▲	Barbing 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		This is a weird phenomenon with some dictation apps too. They talk about privacy first, they talk up local first, then their default settings are to send every syllable to someone else’s computer. Once you understand the app it’s trivial to make it a local, but there’s a good chance your first transcript is coming off a server unlike what the marketing material suggested.