How to run an LLM on your laptop

Getting into local models takes a bit more effort than, say, navigating to ChatGPT's online interface. But the very accessibility of a tool like ChatGPT comes with a cost. "It's the classic adage: If something's free, you're the product," says Elizabeth Seger, the director of digital policy at Demos, a London-based think tank. OpenAI, which offers both paid and free tiers, trains its models on users' chats by default. It's not too difficult to opt out of this training, and it also used to be possible to remove your chat data from OpenAI's systems entirely, until a recent legal decision in the New York Times' ongoing lawsuit against OpenAI required the company to maintain all user conversations with ChatGPT.