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[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 days ago

I am zero surprised.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 days ago (2 children)

No way... you're telling me a free AI is profiting off my data?

Always run AI locally!

[–] FarraigePlaisteach 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Is that feasible for someone with an office PC with integrated graphics? Asking for a friend.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If you have a lot of RAM, you can run small models slowly on the CPU. Your integrated graphics I would guess won't fit anything useful in it's vram, so if you really want to run something locally, getting some extra sticks of RAM is probably your cheapest option.

I have 64G and I run 8-14b models. 32b is pushing it (it's just really slow)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Don't iGPUs use the RAM as VRAM directly? You'd only need to configure how much in the BIOS (eg. by default it uses 1.5GB of 8GB or smth and you can set it to 6/8GB)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yes for gaming, but for LLMs I've heard that the bandwidth limitations of using system RAM as vram hurts performance worse than running on the CPU using system memory directly, since smaller models are more memory bandwidth limited.

I've never tried to run AI on an igpu with system memory though so you could try it, assuming it will let you allocate like 32GB or more like 64GB. I think you'll also need a special runner that supports igpus.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Yeah, AI is even being trained in data provided by the Nazi Steve Huffman's website.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

when does it end

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

What!? What a complete and utter shocker!!

Tbf, I don't use any of these corporate llms for exactly that reason. At best, they just use user interaction to "improve" the models, and they're more likely using it to profile and track them as well. Fuck that.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Surprised pikachu face.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] gofsckyourself 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Comments from some federated sources always add the username of the user they are replying to. It's one of the things I really hate from cross-federation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Oooh, I didn’t know that. Thanks for explaining.

[–] ObsidianZed 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Everyone had it wrong! It was the Chinese Government stealing your data to give to TikTok!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

"I only care if America has my data"

DeepSeek > TikTok > Oracle > Ellison > America

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Uno reverse