If the files are exact copies, then MD5 checks will catch them; tweaking so many files just to bypass this could prove to be too tedious of a process for people to bother exploiting it.

However, people could create scripts for others to mass-download, -edit, and -upload their files accordingly to reduce this tedium.

What’s wrong with https://lmstudio.ai/ or https://jan.ai/ for offline, private, FOSS use?

To be fair, based on observations after these years, it doesn’t appear that waiting longer before release would have significantly improved Autocomplete Idiocy in any way.

Nanobots of 90’s sci-fi, here we finally come!

You are right that Molly would lag behind in security updates by one version every time, but Molly is currently the only way to get Signal on tablets/other Droids in one account, effectively, as far as I know.