TheJesusaurus

I can see that being useful but to me that’s just like a sovereign/offline large language model basically.

We can call it AI but ultimately that’s just a piece of software I could in theory buy once and forget about

Text to speech already existed and doesn’t need AI. Photos admittedly if I could have a sovereign version of Google photos that incorporates some of those features that was FOSS and offline, then ok maybe that’s something useful “AI” can do.

I’m reasonably tech literate though and the idea of even exploring if such a thing is possible seems like more pain than it’s even worth

I still don’t understand how AI would be useful even if I owned the whole stack from the power station on up