I have avoided AI (LLMS) because it didn’t seem nearly useful enough to warrant supporting these tech assholes. Is there anyway to use it locally on a normal device (16 Gb ram, 8 year old Geforce graphics, etc?). Can I just slow it down and get it to work locally?


I don’t think I’ve seen this recommended yet, but maybe you can check out CoCore https://www.cocore.dev/. I saw a demo of this some time ago and it’s still pretty much an experimental project. Essentially this is more of a community shared way to run local LLMs, especially for those without necessary compute. You are basically using an LLM hosted on another person’s computer in an encrypted manner. There’s a lot of technical detail about it that goes over my head. It is slow, and of course, still requires trust, or some auditing to verify it. But I think it’s kinda a cool way to crowdsource resource to run. The network of users is on fediverse btw.
Sounds like golem. Interesting