A remote inference endpoint is someone else's off switch wired into the heart of your product. Here is why the inference that matters belongs on hardware you own, behind a record you can verify yourself.
Depending on a remote inference endpoint means depending on someone else's off switch: their uptime, their pricing, their policy changes, their access to your data. This essay makes the case for sovereign on-device inference and a signed, post-quantum, offline-verifiable record you can hold without trusting the vendor.
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