Don't Buy an Uncensored AI on a Flash Drive: What You Can Do Instead
You Don't Need to Buy Uncensored AI on a Flash Drive
I usually scroll past ads on Instagram, but one stopped me mid-scroll a few days ago: hard techno pounding under words flashing on a black screen, one after the other, the kind of industrial punk aesthetic that wants you to feel like you’re watching a manifesto, not a product demo. It got me, I was too curious. I followed a link to look up what it actually was.
Strip the theatrics away, and here’s the pitch: you can buy a refurbished flash drive that will run an uncensored open source model on your laptop for $30.
Turns out this isn’t a one-off product. It’s a niche category. There’s at least one other version of the same idea selling on TikTok shop, pitched almost identically: plug and play, fully private, no internet, explicitly marketed as uncensored and aimed at preppers...
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