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.
I’m not advertising any service. I added an image because Lemmy wouldn’t let me post the question without one. I think I may have chosen the wrong post type or something. Sorry for the confusion.
No worries. Yeah, the user interface is difficult. Thanks anyways for the post, it motivated me to self host my own agent, and it works quite well actually.