# Should a privacy-focused note-taking app adopt AI? **URL:** \ **Category:** Talk\ **Tags:** AI\ **Created:** [April 4, 2025, 12:59pm UTC](https://community.anytype.io/t/should-a-privacy-focused-note-taking-app-adopt-ai/27442 "2025-04-04T12:59:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 18
**Author:** ![\_sky](https://community.anytype.io/user_avatar/community.anytype.io/_sky/32/18521_2.png) [@\_sky](https://community.anytype.io/u/_sky)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2025, 2:45pm UTC](https://community.anytype.io/t/should-a-privacy-focused-note-taking-app-adopt-ai/27442/18 "2025-04-30T14:45:19Z")
Hi Kadiz, welcome to the community! Glad to have you with us. With respect towards you, I’m trying to be really objective and rational and I just can’t seem to see how this makes sense… > [@Kadiz](#): > > I think that it would be highly contradictory if Anytype, which brands itself with “trust”, “autonomy”, “security”, and privacy, would implement any kind of tools based on generative AI/LLMs. You said it’s concerning that AI is potentially coming to Anytype but the quoted sentence (and your whole comment) doesn’t tell me why you think having AI is contradictory to Anytype’s branding. I know that it being “local” is not your concern as to why Anytype, ‘which brands itself with “trust”, “autonomy”, “security”, and privacy’ shouldn’t onboard AI. Unless it is please let me know. > [@Kadiz](#): > > highly unethical ways (both in terms of [labor conditions](https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/) I don’t see how OpenAI hiring Kenyan workers has anything to do with Anytype. You don’t even know if Anytype is planning to use ChatGPT yet). Even if they are, how does this have anything to do with Anytype? The roads I drive on were built by people getting paid way less than me for working way harder than me under the hot sun while I drive in my air conditioned car, with that logic I shouldn’t use roads then. > [@Kadiz](#): > > and of stealing intellectual property Again, not sure how this has anything to do with Anytype. Also, “stealing” is not the right word here but that would go into a whole different discussion. > [@Kadiz](#): > > tremendous environmental impacts With this logic, we shouldn’t be using our computers because it needs to be charged and that electricity is coming from somewhere that is negative to the environment (unless you are self sustaining via wind turbine, solar panels etc.). Anytype shouldn’t exist because it’s using servers under AWS and those servers are a net negative directly to the environment… > [@Kadiz](#): > > often inaccurate (so-called hallucinations), and thus ineffective. Just want to make sure that we know AI right now is only in its amoeba stage, right? It’s like someone complaining about the “world wide web” in 1994. Let’s be real, AI is inevitable. Not wanting to use AI down the line will be like those uncontacted tribes that rejecting contact with civilization. Do you think 30 years from now you still wouldn’t be using AI? > [@Kadiz](#): > > Basically, implementing generative AI is part of the trend towards enshittification we’ve been seeing in IT products in the last few years. Would love to get some examples of this. All the enshitification that I can think of are done by human decision… To wrap it up, I don’t see how any of the backup points you made has got to do with convincing us that local AI/LLM would go against Anytype’s privacy… I have the same notion with @Shampra and I voiced it out half a year ago. AI is incredibly useful for a PKM, especially for a PKM that I’ll be using for the rest of my life. Imagine all the information you’ve gathered in 40 years (2065), and you trying to remember something you wrote into your Anytype second brain 30 years ago in 2035, are you gonna spend 30 minutes looking for it or are you gonna get AI to pull it up for you and help you remember the context as to why it was written down 30 years ago? I willing to bet it’s the latter. But as of right now, AI/LLM shouldn’t be the focus in my opinion, especially not when there are so many other features that Anytype has yet to implement that are much more needed. This has been my stance since last year and I still stand by that. > [@Roadmap for local AI/LLM Intergration?](https://community.anytype.io/t/roadmap-for-local-ai-llm-intergration/22881/3): > > Personally, I don’t think LLM should be the focus so soon. Eventually, yeah; but definitely not any time soon. There are other things that should take priority that are actually needed by most users, not an LLM that for most people is just a nice to have. I highly disagree with this. I did not find out about Notion, Tana, Obsidian, Capacities, Logseq, Roam, Amplenote, Coda, Kortex etc. because of their LLM capabilities (if they even have LLM implemented, which most don’t). I hear about these b… --- _[View the full topic](https://community.anytype.io/t/should-a-privacy-focused-note-taking-app-adopt-ai/27442)._