This is fantastic. One rarely discussed use case is avoiding overzealous "alignment" - you want models to help advance your goals without arbitrary refusals for benign inputs. Why would I want Anthropic or OpenAI to have filtering authority over my queries? Consider OpenRouter ToS - "you agree not to use the Service [..] in violation of any applicable AI Model Terms": not sure if they actually enforce it but, of course, I'd want hardware security attestations that they can't monitor or censor my inputs. Open models should be like utilities - the provider supplies the raw capability (e.g., electrons or water or inference), while usage responsibility remains entirely with the end user.
That's a big reason why we started Tinfoil and why we use it ourselves. I love the utilities analogy, something that is deeply integrated in business and personal use cases (like the Internet or AI) needs to have verifiable policies and options for data confidentiality.
