Indeed.

I have an Immich instance running on my home server that backs up my and my wife’s photos. It’s like an open source Google Photos.

One of its features is an local AI model that recognises faces and tags names on them, as well as doing stuff like recognising when a picture is of a landscape, food, etc.

Likewise, Firefox has a really good offline translation feature that runs locally and is open source.

AI doesn’t have to be bad. Big tech and venture capital is just choosing to make it so.