I strongly recommend that people run LLMs locally for a different reason.
The ones you can run on your own machine tend to be bad - really bad. They hallucinate wildly and fail at all sorts of tasks that the larger hosted ones succeed at.
This makes them a fantastic tool for learning more about how LLMs work and what they're useful for. Interacting with a weak-but-functional LLM that runs on your own computer is a great way to get a much more solid mental model for what these things actually are.
The ones you can run on your own machine tend to be bad - really bad. They hallucinate wildly and fail at all sorts of tasks that the larger hosted ones succeed at.
This makes them a fantastic tool for learning more about how LLMs work and what they're useful for. Interacting with a weak-but-functional LLM that runs on your own computer is a great way to get a much more solid mental model for what these things actually are.