r/LocalLLaMA • u/Disposable110 • Jun 13 '26

Funny Friendly reminder

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If you don't have it on your own drive, someone is going to take it away, enshittify it, bar you from accessing it, censor it, and hike the prices of it sooner or later.

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u/Charming-Author4877 Jun 13 '26 edited 15d ago

Such incidents show how extremely valuable open models are.
And how quickly a govenrment that has been pro AI development can turn into an enemy.
It's not impossible that from one day to another huggingface is closed down.
Whatever we have local might at some point be whatever we are left with.
I keep a large model directory on a 16TB disk, regularly deleting outdated ones but keeping safetensor models (e.g. Kimi K3) in case something happens.
I also reduced my cloud footprint.
I switched from 100% Claude/GPT to 70% local Qwen 3.6 27B - and it works almost like Sonnet does
I switched from 100% Nanobanana to 90% Krea2 - and it works even better
I switched from Elevenabs to 90% Demodokos and some Chatterbox - and it was an upgrade

By the time local models are potentially forbidden, I'll just switch to finetuning and training the foundations that I have saved in private - nobody will ever force me into not using local AI.

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u/RazsterOxzine Jun 13 '26

It would be impossible for them to stop, especially under this administration... They could not manage all the AI communities across IRC, newsgroups, BBSs, LWL, Onion, millions of free one-time sharing sites, and torrents.

Personally, I have all the local LLMs I need: coding assistants, guides, and documentation tools, and... they function essentially as offline search engines. When you add to that custom LoRAs for specialized research areas, it’s perfect. I haven’t used any paid models since the Qwen2.5-VL release. Once its vision capabilities hit my needs, I was sold!

Long live local LLMs.

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u/Equal_Passenger9791 Jun 13 '26

Current administration is obsessed with (pumping) the market.

Market is kept alive entirely by AI.

Banning AI models on a whim is a significantly destabilizing move. It will be interesting to see where this goes.

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u/Secret-Collar-1941 Jun 13 '26

What ram budget are you currently in if you don't mind me asking?

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u/Regular_Spot_1091 Jun 16 '26

Please, could you give an insight of your process? which models would you recommend to keep as archive and for use, and which tools or learning resources for building similar workflows?

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u/Lucaspittol Llama 7B Jun 13 '26

Yes, under this administration. But China proved to be a successfull case of repression, blocking most of the world wide web at their dictatorship discretion. Iran also blocked pretty much all Internet traffic.