Local AI Setups Hit a Reality Wall for Precision Work

A practitioner who invested in a Mac mini AI setup for SEO work reports persistent hallucinations, calling out the gap between social media hype and production reliability.

The dream of running AI locally — no API costs, no latency, full control — continues to collide with reality for precision-demanding workloads. @Legal_Eagle_52 shared a frustrated account of buying a new Mac mini, loading it with local AI tools for SEO work, and hitting immediate hallucination problems. Their verdict: "All of these posts you see about them making money with their AI... are full of it."

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