3 things I automate with local AI that I’d never trust ChatGPT with

Cloud AI is powerful but not private. Local AI is private but less powerful. That trade-off is real, and trying to pick one over the other is the wrong framework. A better use of your time is to find tasks that require privacy, but not as much model intelligence, and then have local AI models automate them for you. Here are three such tasks that I’ve automated using on-device LLMs.