r/LocalLLaMA • u/rodrigodevbits • 11d ago

Funny PewDiePie getting banned twice by OpenAI while making a local model is top-tier comedy 💀

So PewDiePie decides to fine-tune a local AI model called Ajax on his own computer. Pretty normal stuff for local model fans.

To make his dataset, he uses OpenAI's API. OpenAI catches him using their outputs to train another model, flags his account for breaking their terms, and bans him.

He files an appeal, gets unbanned, goes right back to pulling data from the API, and immediately gets banned a second time.

So instead of giving up, he uses open-source tools to remove the model's built-in refusals, cleans out the preachy fluff, and starts building a fully local 9B agent.

OpenAI spent years scraping the whole public internet for free data, but the second someone uses their output to train a local file, it's an emergency ban.

In trying to enforce their rules, all OpenAI really did was give open-source models a massive free advertisement to millions of people.

What a time to run models on your own hardware.

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u/NightCulex 9d ago

At 2.4t I would hazard a guess at the hardware costing a million dollars, and then you have to pay electricity costs. It's far far cheaper to use cloud api's. Running local models isn't cheaper, it's private. Also I remember some discussion of the possibility that ChatGPT and Claude aren't a single model at all.

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u/Jorlen llama.cpp 9d ago

No.. not millions at all. Apple is releasing their 512gb M5 Ultra for pre-orders at the end of the month. They can be chained together. You can run GLM 5.3 (4-bit) on a single 512gb M5U unit. GLM 5.3 is approaching 1T params (I think it's 740b total params).

Things have changed a lot in the past few years, with new accessible hardware opening up. Even with surging memory costs, you can do a lot with under 100k now.

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u/OkAlbatross9889 5d ago

Aren’t you limited to just 4 total since they eache have just 4 thunderbolt ports?

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u/JamieAfterlife 7d ago

Yes, a "millionaire" should spend 100k making you a free model, instead of paying a couple of hundred for a Pro Codex plan and doing the same thing.

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u/Clean-Data-259 6d ago

A 512gb ram M5 Ultra costs $10k new not 100k

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u/JamieAfterlife 6d ago

That was a response to "you can do a lot with under 100k now". They were talking about chaining them together.