Using local AI: exciting, overwhelming, and frustrating

A Verge writer recounts trying to use AI regularly, hesitant about giving personal data to cloud services while local models become more capable. The author, not an AI expert, questions whether the tech justifies spending heavily on high-RAM computers and will document the journey.

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