On: Ollama v0.1.45

[ms-menardi]

Huggingface isn't local, while Ollama is.

[Carrok → ms-menardi]

This is more important than people seem to realize. Local means almost no data security issues. Not local means, well, all the data security issues.

[Der_Einzige → ms-menardi]

What? That's not true at all. Citation needed!

[neals → Der_Einzige]

"Huggingface isn't local, while Ollama is." - ms-menardi

[Der_Einzige → neals]

It's just wrong and a lie. Huggingface is local.

[jhbadger → Der_Einzige]

I think you are arguing at cross-purposes. If you use HuggingFace to simply download models to run locally with ollama or llama.cpp, then you can say it is "local". But you can also use it as a service to run models (which is how they make money). Then they obviously aren't local.

[Der_Einzige → jhbadger]

Huggingface let's you run locally with huggingface exclusive code! They started this way and the managed/hosted solution came later.

You downvoters are the folks who jumped into this craze post ChatGPT.

[doctorpangloss → Der_Einzige]

I have no idea where people got the idea that Hugging Face isn’t local. I mean they show you how to run everything locally, with all the quantization strategies you could want, with far fewer bugs.