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.

  • nitrolife@hikki.teamEnglish
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    58 minutes ago

    Yes, I installed an LLM at home. I use it for many useful things:

    1. reading novels by translating them from English to my language on the fly via machine
    2. for communicating on lemmy by translating posts and comments
    3. For HomeAssistant
    4. And very rarely for development and searching the internet

    I have a RX9070XT and llama-swap to switch models on the fly. I’m thinking about installing a second RX9070XT so that I don’t take away the translation capability from my lemmy instance while I stress the other neural network with other tasks.