AI is a tool, which can be used for good or bad things, although Chatbot's (Especially ChatGPT) is used heavily for surveillance, which is absolutely terrifying.
A video with more information HERE or you can copy the link: https://youtu.be/57wFvOqzBvg
I personally heavilly disagree with a lot of points made in the video, although it has a lot of key points.
My personal take: Use a local AI model if you have the hardware.
I also hate how many people believe you need a high end GPU to run a local AI model, but I heavilly disagree, as Gemma 3 runs fine on my hardware (provided below)
➜ ~ lspci | grep -i vga
0000:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation TigerLake-H GT1 [UHD Graphics] (rev 01)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GA107M [GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Mobile] (rev a1)
➜ ~
➜ ~ free -m
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 15773 11299 347 1375 6007 4474
Swap: 17351 1 17350
➜ ~
➜ ~ cat /etc/os-release | grep PRETTY_NAME
PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie)"
➜ ~
The terminal shows my system doesn't have the highest specs, yet I am still able to run a LLM.
*Note: I use Nouveau drivers, using proprietary Nvidia drivers may increase performance.
Video link can be found HERE or: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3jACeyDc64/p>
As expected, a LLM doesn't run crazy fast or anything outstanding, but it still is significantly better than using a sketchy site which sells your (personal) data.