Does anyone run their own AI service?
If so,
Which one?
What hardware?
Do you have a way to access it from outside or from a phone?
And, if you’re open to sharing, what do you do with it?
I know AI-enabling hardware is insanely expensive right now, but some of the smaller (<32GB) more efficient models (think deepseek- or qwen-based) don’t absolutely need specialized hardware to run and perform well enough for many purposes.
I am so aware of the absolutely abysmal privacy practices of basically all AI companies that I’m not comfortable using them to help me with web searches and the such, because there’s no way that all this information won’t be going into a profile. This makes me want to have my own “helper” service.
Why wouldn’t you trust a local model? I mean sure they are less intelligent but if you dont expose it publicly you should be good to go
I don’t trust it to be accurate; I’d have to reference the sources it pulled from. Extra work for little payoff.
Got it, makes sense. You’d probably have to do some benchmarking first. Depending on how large the source catalog is.