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Yeah, it hallucinated that part.

Don't give me any ideas now >:)

I couldn't agree more!

Oh, no. I don't dislike it, but I also don't have strong feelings about it. I'm just interested in hearing other people's opinions; I believe that if something is public, then it is indeed public.

I think so too. And I tried to do my research before making this post, but I wasn't able to find anyone bringing this issue up.

You can check Hugging Face's website for specific requirements. I will warn you that lot of home machines don't fit the minimum requirements for a lot of models available there. There is TinyLlama and it can run on most underpowered machines, but its functionalities are very limited and it would lack a lot as an everyday AI Chatbot. You can check my other comment too for other options.

The issue with that method, as you've noted, is that it prevents people with less powerful computers from running local LLMs. There are a few models that would be able to run on an underpowered machine, such as TinyLlama; but most users want a model that can do a plethora of tasks efficiently like ChatGPT can, I daresay. For people who have such hardware limitations, I believe the only option is relying on models that can be accessed online.

For that, I would recommend Mistral's Mixtral models (https://chat.mistral.ai/) and the surfeit of models available on Poe AI's platform (https://poe.com/). Particularly, I use Poe for interacting with the surprising diversity of Llama models they have available on the website.

I think that in that case, YouTube is your friend. There are a few pretty straight forward videos that can help you out; if you're serious about it you're going have to, eventually, become familiar with it.

That's totally okay! You didn't address my specific issue; but I didn't know that there were instances across the Fediverse that chose to defederate from Threads. I think that, in a way, you've partly answered my question. Thank you for taking your time to answer.

Oh, that's interesting; I had no idea. I'll go to my Threads profile and check it. I'll edit this comment later informing whether there really is that option.

Edit: The only option I was able to find was "Suggesting posts on other apps," and when I clicked on it I only had two options: Instagram and Facebook – none of which are part of the Fediverse. I wasn't able to find anything on 'Meta's Accounts Center' either.

I didn't know that website, thank you! However, my instance has chosen not to defederate from Threads – according to the source you cited. So, I'm not entirely sure why this is happening.

Congratulations, good Samaritan. Do you want a cookie for your efforts? I just hadn’t specifically thought about cigarettes, which I clearly pointed out in my original comment. If you've noticed, good for you. I hadn’t. But spare me the condescension.