Nobody Asked for AI

Self-hosted LLMs are neat and private, if you (already) have the hardware/budget and some cheap (solar PV) surplus juice to drive it.

oh so yours is trained on ethical sources? you compensated the creators for their work and did so with their consent to machine training?

What the fuck are ethical sources? Where is compensation and consent when I unapologetically use pirate archives of books and papers? You people crack me up.

the fact that you have no idea what I’m talking about either means you’re full of shit, or cartoonishly stupid and evil.

Probably both

The fact that you immediately descend into ad hominems indicates that you’re a just another troll that should be posting from hexbear.

you’re simply used to llm sycophancy, not talking to actual people.

you really not understanding training on sources compensated for their content is hilariously stupid

You’re not understanding what standing on the shoulders of giants means. Locally hosted open weights models are free/libre and puts you in control of your data. Since we’re talking about hilariously stupid.