Check out Ollama, it’s probably the easiest way to get started these days. It provides tooling and an api that different chat frontends can connect to.

Locally run AI: 0

Right. The problem is not the fact it consumes the information, the problem is if the user uses it to violate copyright. It’s just a tool after all.

Like, I’m capable of violating copyright in infinitely many ways, but I usually don’t.

It’s only theft if they support laws preventing their competitors from doing it too. Which is kind of what OpenAI did, and now they’re walking that idea back because they’re losing again.

Right, the offline version (if you have the hardware to run it) is completely under your control, and no one can take that away from you. Honestly nice to see that happen, I thought it would take several years.

If the government thinks health insurance companies are the only systemic failures that drive people to violence, I suspect they will have a rude awakening in the next four years.

Bet you could hack one of these together with a Raspberry Pi plus camera module. Not exactly a low effort project though.

lol not sure why you’re calling out Israel specifically when likely every government on the planet is doing the same thing.

Don’t really roll off the tongue does it?

Or just use e2e encrypted services. They can be trustless and still useful.

With the merge request that landed this Vulkan ray-tracing support for Lavapipe, Konstantin Seurer shared the screenshot below and wrote “Don’t ask about performance”

So… how’s the perf— gets shot