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If you have sensitive data, how (if at all) do you use AI? Just chat with LLMs on the web (so they don't have access to your data)? Anonymize your data before using it with Claude Code (or similar)? Not use AI at all? #rstats

Local models. Nothing leaves your machine. LM Studio or Ollama run them, also as a service that e.g. RStudio or positron can hook in. Open weights such as qwen3.8 are pretty good.

Both LM Studio and Ollama run / can run as a service that gets accessed via a localhost url and port (it's actually an OpenAI compatible setup). The IDEs (just like any other service: pi, openclaw, ...) connect to that under their settings. For positron you may have to edit a JSON file.

Ah gotcha. Didn’t realize this was through Posit Assistant.