Oddbean new post about login | logout I think the ad model is about to get shot in face by local llms prechewing the web. Many of us already use an llm as starting point instead of google. Microsoft and the other big techs are forcing the issue as attack vector on google since google has most of ad revenue. Even more ominous for ad based model is the use of agentic ai. I almost never see an ad already and it was by accident.
I don't know if this coming to an end but it's going to drastically change. What's stopping companies from inserting ads in their LLMs? Nothing.
Nothing to stop and everything to gain. If it’s not already the case… AI output can and will be bought and sold.
Personalai is freedom tech
Nostr will open this market. That will be good.
And the non google big techs are weakening google for us.
I use 90% local llm with personal vector cache stored locally on encrypted drive. Llms are moving to edge. Check out dolphin for uncensored models.
That's awesome and I'd love to do this too, but we're not the masses that fuel advertising models.
Mozilla model?
Plus as I said. All the non google bigs are tryna fug up google cashflow. While they fight freedom folk are building. Lotta ppl starting their web journeys on llm. Especially the littles
You could have it with a start9 kind of easily if I am not mistaken.
Fair point. Self hosting platforms can help here, but even then these aren't for the masses just yet. We're getting close though!
I just installed a start9 the other day, and it was fairly easy. Click, next, next, done.
Also quite cool, how this field is developing. As many others. I think we have many opportunities to be bullish! 🔥🔥🔥
It is starting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvLTlDy9G8c
Wait until they start sneaking ads into LLM responses in ways you don't even know you're internalizing.
Personal ai bro. That's the new freedom tech. Run local.
Tell me about it. Except "local" need not (solely) mean "only on my local machine": https://vaporware.network
For me it does. I don't trust other ppls gear
That's cool. You can be as local or not as fits your preference. My point is that "logical machine" need not necessarily be 1:1 with "physical machine". Our goal is to make that distinction as fungible as the user wants (including not at all)
cool i guess. But local means on my machine. cloud is someone elses. just not a fit for this use case imho but hey itll be a popular transitional til abused by whoever sits at data choke point. til then. let le bon temps roule as the cajun say
To be clear, personally I would only use cloud services for encrypted-at-rest redundancy. In case my local machine explodes I could restore.