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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.

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[โ€“] rumba@lemmy.zip 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Ollama container, 2070 super, 3-7b, meta and qwen

I use it to ingest tons of news rss, find dupes, summarize, and then post that output to mesh a mesh network.

I also use it for a self hosted mealie to figure out recipe->ingredient.

I also use it for receipts. I translate pdf -> txt, feed the text to qwen, ask it who is the vendor, what is the price, what it a reasonable memo for the receipt, and give a dozen categories, which is best.

[โ€“] StateMachine@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

I am actually very interested in the news feed thing. How do you find duplicates in the news feeds? Wouldn't you have to pull the actual articles and then have MB of data to shift through which would exceed the window? Do you use a vector DB? Do you just have it use curl or do you pay for an Internet API service?