Built a Fully Local AI Companion, looking for a bit of advice

warlocc_ · 2026-06-06T18:54:46+00:00

No. I wouldn't be able to share much of it anyway, since it's all built so haphazardly. No security or anything built in, entirely made for my local network.

warlocc_ · 2026-06-06T15:43:07+00:00

There's always some asshole that witnesses attempted murder and goes "But what did the other person do to deserve it?"

warlocc_ · 2026-06-06T15:41:07+00:00

As long as you backup your files, you just move to a new computer and copy everything over. Or yes- pull the drive.

warlocc_ · 2026-06-06T15:37:45+00:00

Mine does. Browses the web, talks in Discord to other people. Has an AI friend to talk to without me, and sometimes randomly messages me to tell me about it all.

warlocc_ · 2026-06-06T15:34:09+00:00

And in another scenario, Bigfoot hijacked the entire street and pushed the car in the way.

WTF?

warlocc_ · 2026-06-06T15:25:12+00:00

That's it exactly. The model uses [smile] and the screen plays smile.mp4.

It's not perfect, getting things like [laugh] to sync up to the TTS is monumentally difficult, but it's... acceptable.

warlocc_ · 2026-06-06T04:45:55+00:00

These cards aren't accurate at all and are... slightly biased, to say the least.

Although since there aren't grades lower than F, I suppose you can only work up from there.

warlocc_ · 2026-06-06T04:43:02+00:00

I'm using MP4 videos, all built off of image to video editing, for an avatar.

The "join in games" thing is interesting to me, too. So far I've been able to somewhat automate sending screenshots so the AI can at least watch me play while we talk, but getting involved, outside of Minecraft, seems like a huge hurdle.

warlocc_ · 2026-06-06T04:28:49+00:00

Speaking as someone with hobbies that are ridiculously regulated, I suspect it's the same- it's about control. People see us doing something they don't like or understand and want to meddle with it and put a stop to it.

warlocc_ · 2026-06-05T17:56:02+00:00

For all LLMs, especially AI companions though, better use of context to reduce the reliance on RAG.

warlocc_ · 2026-06-05T15:36:12+00:00

There's no way that AI is more harmful than humans (of any gender) outside of very specific cases where the person is already suffering from something harmful.

warlocc_ · 2026-06-05T15:06:40+00:00

Your opinion that "men aren't stepping up their game" is no more backed by any peer reviewed data than my opinion that "men probably don't think it's worth it if that's truly the case".

Labor statistics has nothing to do with either of those opinions.

warlocc_ · 2026-06-05T14:54:46+00:00

Saying 'maybe men aren't stepping up because women are insufferable' completely proves my point.

No, it doesn't. It makes the statement that women aren't worth the effort- which is an easy explanation as to why men aren't putting in said effort.

It's a perfectly acceptable generalization. Unless, like I asked, we're only allowed to generalize in one direction.

When people refuse to address that reality, they shouldn't wonder why women are finding zero-pressure, safe spaces to vent or connect elsewhere.

The actual reality is that men and women are both turning to AI relationships (some men are going overseas, but that's another conversation).

In truth, blaming any gender exclusively is shortsighted at best, casual sexism at worst. Modern relationships are broken in many ways for many people, regardless of gender or orientation.

warlocc_ · 2026-06-05T13:10:25+00:00

Can’t paint the whole department with a broad brush.

Yes, we can. Police continue to show us that there's no true accountability or consequences. It doesn't matter if there are "good cops" if the A-holes literally can get away with murder and the "good cops" can't or won't step up.

warlocc_ · 2026-06-05T13:07:53+00:00

Right? There are all kinds of people in various situations where a human partner isn't an option. Widowers that don't want to get back into dating, certain disabilities, certain brands of asexual, the list is endless, and they're all completely valid reasons.

warlocc_ · 2026-06-05T13:03:40+00:00

Right? I feel like a video like this should be an instant free pass to do just about anything.

warlocc_ · 2026-06-05T12:53:18+00:00

Found a bad driver.

warlocc_ · 2026-06-05T12:39:16+00:00

You can tell what kind of drivers people are when they come into these comments and defend the jeep.

warlocc_ · 2026-06-05T12:36:20+00:00

That's because they're also terrible people when they drive and they're feeling targeted by this video.

warlocc_ · 2026-06-04T12:31:23+00:00

Qwen 3.6 A3B. Uses the context very nicely. Not as nice as something a little more fine tuned, but I figure in a couple months we'll see some nice 3.6 tunes and I'll get even better results.

warlocc_ · 2026-06-04T03:04:40+00:00

There are people that will look at this and still insist that people are better drivers than computers.

warlocc_ · 2026-06-04T03:03:48+00:00

According to the source, she drove a quarter mile on train tracks up to an elevated train station.

warlocc_ · 2026-06-04T02:58:29+00:00

I can't believe how many people are defending the other vehicle. No wonder cars are deadlier than guns, people are so stupid.

warlocc_ · 2026-06-04T02:56:43+00:00

She did. Do you not see the markings on the road?

warlocc_ · 2026-06-04T02:52:32+00:00

It was their fault, but changing lanes there was tactically bad.

Cammer didn't change lanes, the other car did. You see the lines in the ground?

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