MacroVoices · Thursday, September 10, 2026
While Chinese AI models offer significant cost savings, Matt Barrie raised concerns about data privacy, stating that using these models would mean 'all my data goes to China.' He also touched upon the potential for AI models to use user data for their own training, citing the example of Ox Alpha's free offering.
“If I wanted to run this on the Chinese models, that $1300 worth of spend would have been closer to $150 worth of spend.”
“But then all my data goes to China.”
“Now, the problem with all of this is, they're all training on it. So if you're kind of wondering why, you know, why it's free, it's because you're probably the product.”