I’ve been play around with ollama. Given you download the model, can you trust it isn’t sending telemetry?

The models can’t do anything the inference library doesn’t allow for. So you shouldn’t need to worry about a rogue model if you’re loading it somewhere someone you trust can vouch for. If you’re worried about Ollama, you can monitor its network usage (and block it in your firewall). There shouldn’t be any network activity if you disable auto-update.

For OP, download wireshark and see if any new connections spring up when you run it.

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