The entire digital economy is based on spying. It's called corporate surveillance and it's been around for 25 years. Why would AI escape this business model? If anything, it turbocharges it.
I never touched any GPT crap, let alone BingGPT. Enjoy the doomsday! Off I go to the high seas alone!
Dramatic talk aside, it is obvious enough. US companies are trying to gather data and train AI by giving it to people for free so that they can install it in war robots and continue their genocide economy. If this feels like conspiracy...
It's not as good, but running small LLMs locally can work. I've been messing around with ollama, which makes it drop dead simple to try out different models locally.
You won't be running any model as powerful as ChatGPT - but for quick "stack overflow replacement" style of questions I find it's usually good enough.
And before you write off the idea of local models completely, some recent studies indicate that our current models could be made orders of magnitude smaller for the same level of capability. Think Moore's law but for shrinking the required connections within a model. I do believe we'll be able to run GPT3.5-level models on consumer grade hardware in the very near future. (Of course, by then GPT-7 may be running the world but we live in hope).