alt Hacker NewsWhat!? You are skeptical of AI but will go through the manual process of hosting a model that’s less than frontier intelligence (talking about Qwen 3.6)? Anti-AI folks are always odd to me
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This largely describes me. I'm skeptical of AI in that it's capabilities, while very impressive, are vastly oversold and overblown. Being skeptical of AI is not being "Anti-AI". That's largely the AI data centers are using up all the water and electricity types.
Maybe you're anti-AI because you're really anti-outsourcing your thinking to some remote corporation you don't control?
That's one of my main issues with AI anyways, the thought of having all my data go through some sketchy foreign (to me) entity with questionable motives and under a questionable regime.
Local AI solves for all of those.
A local model needs 0 investment and 0 commitment, takes literal minutes to get started (especially if you have someone who is into that stuff showing you the ropes) and if you end up disliking the experience of using AI you can just `rm -fr` it and forget the whole thing existed.