When did I say that...? Is this an AI hallucinated comment?

Your comment implied that. Don’t have to say everything directly. You don’t need AI hallucination to connect things logically.

...are they going to come to my house and delete my local copy?

Open weights are a one-way ratchet.

Plus extremely easy to ablate, abliterate, apply steering vectors, etc.

DeepSeek V4 Flash is good enough to do a 1-shot steering vector sweep on itself.

Weights might seem like random numbers, but having weights gives you amazing, control, interpretability, and steering of the model. So many use cases; plus, you can keep it running as long as you want; no depreciations if you self-host, or find a provider that does.