My point is that your "outsourcing to a compiler" analogy does not make sense. And that running a hosted, proprietary LLM is not the same as "running a script in a remote server".

The whole "AI is a tool" argument only works if the "tool" is a commodity that is universally available and still exists even if the tool manufacturer disappears. Open-weights, locally hosted LLMs fit this criteria. Anything that depends on a cloud provider does not.

> The whole "AI is a tool" argument only works if the "tool" is a commodity that is universally available and still exists even if the tool manufacturer disappears.

You have quite strange criteria for what constitutes a "tool", but sure, at least I see where you're coming from then.