Comment by Aurornis
6 months ago
It’s so hard to decipher the complaints about ollama in this comment section. I keep reading comments from people saying they don’t trust it, but then they don’t explain why they don’t trust it and don’t answer any follow up questions.
As someone who doesn’t follow this space, it’s hard to tell if there’s actually something sketchy going on with ollama or if it’s the usual reactionary negativity that happens when a tool comes along and makes someone’s niche hobby easier and more accessible to a broad audience.
they don’t explain why they don’t trust it
We need to know a few things:
1) Show me the lines of code that log things and how it handles temp files and storage.
2) No remote calls at all.
3) No telemetry at all.
This is the feature list I would want to begin trusting. I use this stuff, but I also don’t trust it.
Both ollama and llama.cpp are open source. You can check the code for both and compile both yourself.
The question is: Why is ollama considered “sketchy” but llama.cpp is not, given that both are open source?
I’m not trying to debate it. I’m trying to understand why people are saying this.
The code is literally open source with MIT license to boot https://github.com/ollama/ollama
Oh.