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.

  • redballooon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    22 hours ago

    I run the AI service (OpenwebUi) myself, but buy the compute on OpenRouter. Self hosting models is not an economic viability for me.

    • AceBonobo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      20 hours ago

      Does OpenRouter have full access to your prompts? What is their privacy policy?

      • redballooon@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        12 hours ago

        They have a flag Zero Data Retention that cones with the promise that after a call no data is kept on any servers. I’m using that.

        It’s contract level trust; I wouldn’t bet my life on it, but overall it’s a compromise I’m willing to make.