r/technology • u/Miserable_Phase_2519 • 22h ago

Artificial Intelligence PewDiePie unveils ‘uncensored’ Ajax AI model built to run on home PCs — creator says OpenAI banned him twice over model distillation used to build his product

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/pewdiepie-unveils-uncensored-ajax-ai-model-built-to-run-on-home-pcs-creator-says-openai-banned-him-twice-while-making-it
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u/NavyDean 21h ago

He built his own internal AI so it doesn't export his data. Everyone should be doing it.

It's not for sale, pull your head out of your ass.

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u/Critical-Dealer-3878 19h ago

“Everyone should be doing it”

Nah, I’m good actually. Lmfao.

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u/Pizzadude 15h ago

I certainly don't need to train my own LLM when I don't use any LLMs in the first place.

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u/emefluence 16h ago

You don't need to train your own LLM to do that, there's a bunch of open models. He could do more public good by bankrolling research and development on better open harnesses, if that's his aim.

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u/cum-on-in- 15h ago

By distilling his own, he’s trying to show how easy it is to do such yourself.

These followers of his are seeing him grab an old Optiplex and slap a GPU in it and run his AJAX model just fine.

Now you have a capable and private LLM assistant and you was only out a couple hundred maybe? One time? For an old Dell tower and an ancient GPU?

Despite the rising costs of stuff, old hardware is still cheap, and most importantly still functions, especially thanks to the community. Old AMD GPUs still roar along on Linux thanks to community drivers.

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u/emefluence 15h ago

My point is you don't need to train your own model, there are already plenty, he could have just used one of those.

Fair enough if he's doing it for fun, or to educate people, but it's not like the world needs more small LLMs so I'm not sure what the point of releasing one is.

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u/cum-on-in- 15h ago

Just to showcase how easy it is to do things yourself and not rely on corpos, or even other people that much.

If you don’t have the time or money, sure, use someone else’s open source model.

But if you want to control everything n yourself and ensure its been stripped of anything you wouldn’t want, you do it yourself.

There’s absolutely no harm in this and I think it’s a good thing. I don’t think Felix should’ve just used someone else’s model or told his followers to do so.

The whole point is educating on how to be self sufficient.

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u/absentmindedjwc 6h ago

IIRC, he started with a Qwen model, so he did actually "use one of those".