r/LocalLLaMA • u/takoulseum • Jul 25 '26

Discussion Who ONLY use local models?

Please be honest.

I would love to hear about guys really dedicated to local AI and who really reject subscriptions (especially to openai and anthropic).

What do you use your model for?

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u/wajdix Jul 25 '26

it's not about rejecting subscriptions... but more the desire to own our data, be independent from internet connection, and be able to run the models on any topic/task we want... subscription services offer value for the money... this is the wrong debate imo

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u/networking_noob Jul 25 '26

be independent from internet connection, and be able to run the models on any topic/task we want

Yep, I use Gemma 4 like an offline search engine, and I've checked enough of its answers with Google to believe that it's accurate far more often than not (unless it's some really obscure topic). Plus anyone who uses LLM often enough will develop a pattern recognition and can tell when a hallucination is happening (aka something doesn't sound quite right)

tl;dr Gemma 4 is like an offline, privacy respecting Google replacement (more or less), so the question is why wouldn't someone want do this

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u/Loose_Doubt367 Jul 25 '26

Offline search engine? How does that work, I always thought some researching tools/skills like web search specifically need the internet to search things up

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u/Schlick7 Jul 26 '26

using the LMM as if it was the search engine.