I avoid cloud based stuff. Though I use GitHub Copilot largely because it's from the early days and it's a great tool (and my employer pays for it). But otherwise, local LLM or gtfo.
Depending on the language, personally, I haven't seen a great deal of hallucination with the models I use (llama 3.1 often). I wouldn't expect, say Spanish, to be a problem. I think you'll find more potential issues when it comes to more domain-specific terminology.
Personally I want a filter that blocks out 'screenshots' and other 'images with text in them' because these are frequently part of hateful memes.
(Organic pictures of a book cover or a sign that somebody built in the physical world don't bother me so much but could be faked pretty easily in this post-modern age so I might accept filtering those out too)
If I'm going to be involved in something like this I'm sure as hell not bringing my daily driver phone. Get serious. Grab a burner, go in expecting it to get discarded or to fall into unfriendly hands.
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