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Another reason to self host your own AI (aussie.zone)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by SuspiciousCarrot78@aussie.zone to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Recent post re: AI as utility

https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/people-will-buy-intelligence-from-us-on-a-meter-chatgpts-ceo-sam-altman-has-critics-worried-with-his-ai-vision

Myself, I'm a fan of local LLM / self hosted ML.... but if you ever needed a clarion call that a hard pivot is coming (soon) for online/ cloud based AI...Altman et al are making some concerning mouth noises (to say nothing of broader concerns with OAI, Anthropic etc).

Right now, I'm sketching out a plan where my Raspberry Pi (always on, 2-3w) uses a magic packet to wake up my modest AI server (Lenovo P330 with Tesla P4) if/when needed (Qwen 3.6-35B-A3B); no point in chugging down 80-100w, 24/7 for no good reason.

If the trend continues the direction it appears to be (increasing costs, environmental impacts etc) then I'd feel a lot better hosting my own as port of first call and replacing simpler tasks with more traditional programs. YMMV.

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[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 0 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

if you're selfhosting AI, make sure you at least firewall it off from the internet. many providers still send metrics back home that includes usage and content.

[–] SuspiciousCarrot78@aussie.zone 2 points 4 weeks ago

Respectfully, that's not really how local LLMs work.

A GGUF model sitting on my hard drive has no ability to "send content back home" any more than a PDF or a JPEG does. If you're running something like llama.cpp or Ollama entirely locally, the model weights are just data files.

The real privacy concerns are cloud APIs, telemetry in front-ends, browser extensions, analytics, update services, or accidentally exposing a service to the public internet.

"Self-hosted AI" isn't one thing. There's a huge difference between:

Running ChatGPT through an API
Running a commercial AI appliance
Running a local Qwen/Mistral/Llama model on your own hardware

Firewalling internet-facing services is good advice. Assuming every local model is secretly uploading prompts is not.