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We loose the war ? Are local LLM rigs officially a waste of money now?

Honestly, with how locked down and overly cautious these new models are getting, trying to jailbreak and bypass the guardrails on the big cloud APIs just seems like the most fun and economical option left.


Why drop $5k on a massive GPU setup to run an uncensored local model when you can just spend some time crafting the perfect prompt to outsmart the filters on GPT-5.6 or Fable 5?


It’s basically a cat-and-mouse game at this point, it costs way less than buying dual 4090s, and honestly, figuring out how to break their strict community guidelines is half the fun.
OpenAI for one will outright ban you if you test the guardrails. I've already received a warning. And the so-called "jailbreaks" get remediated quickly.
Since with offline AI, u can leave it here running for month on single task with self cleanups and smoke-tests :)


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