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minus-squareRikudou_SageAlinkEnglish2•11 months ago which implies using an external API to do that translation It doesn’t. You can have local models. Storing cloud backups requires a server and storage, etc. Yes, it doesn’t have to be the author’s storage. Many, many apps implement it as adding the data to your Google Drive / Dropbox / whatever.
minus-square@KingStrafeIV@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglish1•11 months agoYou can have local models, but the vast majority of people are going to farm that out to a 3rd party provider via API calls because it’s the easiest thing to do. Remember I said “It all depends on how you implement it”.
It doesn’t. You can have local models.
Yes, it doesn’t have to be the author’s storage. Many, many apps implement it as adding the data to your Google Drive / Dropbox / whatever.
You can have local models, but the vast majority of people are going to farm that out to a 3rd party provider via API calls because it’s the easiest thing to do.
Remember I said “It all depends on how you implement it”.