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.

  • N0x0n@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    Does Immich sell/use/keep your ML-based FR? Or is this totally local a never leaves your instance?

    That was always the question that bordered me… I run Leeche its a very simple and minimal photo album service and I really like it ! But my family want something that’s more like immich but I’m very cautious about what i’m selfhosting and something that collects data points on my behalf is a no-go !

    • LewdLemon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      1 hour ago

      Immich is entirely free and open-source software and got a grant from the FUTO Foundation, which is fiercely pro privacy. As such, it does not engage in any data sharing. Development is financed through the grant and purchases of the server licence (I got one; it’s ridiculously good software).

    • IanTwenty@piefed.social
      English
      3·
      3 hours ago

      I do not run Immich but their privacy policy states:

      Locally Stored Data: Immich stores all your photos, albums, settings, and other metadata locally on your device. We do not have access to this data, nor do we transmit or store it on any of our servers.

      https://immich.app/privacy-policy

      Additionally in their docs I can find no mention of connecting to outside services. I do see references to downloading hugging face models.

      https://docs.immich.app/features/facial-recognition#how-face-detection-works

      • N0x0n@lemmy.mlEnglish
        11·
        2 hours ago

        Thank you very much ! I didn’t expected someone doing my part to RTFM o_O !

        Without doing again the heavy reading part, what should I expect from hugging face models?

        If my reading skills are correct it should be local, but I’m really paranoid about this stuff ^^ Even though I read your posted links, I’m still not sure if I should trust them…

        Something written in a manual and what the code realy does are sometimes far appart ^^’