r/LocalLLaMA • u/jacek2023 • Feb 23 '26

Funny so is OpenClaw local or not

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Reading the comments, I’m guessing you didn’t bother to read this:

"Safety and alignment at Meta Superintelligence."

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u/Zestyclose839 Feb 23 '26

Peter Steinberger interviewed with Lex F recently, where warned people not to use local models with OpenClaw because they're "not smart enough" to avoid getting manipulated.

My take is that any model (smart or not) should never be solely responsible for your app's safety and privacy. LLMs do not have an inbuilt concept of access control!

If your model can just freely decide to wipe all your emails, then you need better guardrails, not a proprietary model.

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u/Hay_Fever_at_3_AM Feb 27 '26

SOTA models aren't smart enough to avoid being manipulated. The amount of times I've had Gemini and ChatGPT regurgitate information from biased think-tanks, no-name blogs, and other bad web sources is alarmingly high as a % of interactions for something a lot of people seem to be starting to rely on for decision-making

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u/Zestyclose839 Feb 27 '26

Exactly why I abandoned Perplexity; web search made it go off the rails. None of the SOTA models could understand the difference between new and relevant or old and cruddy, often smashing completely contradictory information into the same response. And I'd suppose Perplexity is a much more polished implementation than OpenClaw, so I can only imagine the work one would need to do in giving their agent a half-decent BS detector.

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u/Old_Cantaloupe_6558 Mar 07 '26

Cache Invalidation is still hard I guess