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Best Of AI Unchained

If you are looking for self-hosted and sovereign AI tools - you've come to the right place. Making sense of the technology and concepts behind AI, breaking down the tools to gain more freedom and autonomy in our lives, and investigating how to avoid being trapped in centralized systems of control. If you want a sovereign future in the digital age, this is where we will build it. This is AI Unchained.

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Sep 24, 2025

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Episodes

#018 - Unlocking the world with AI 24.09.2025

Advanced AI meets sustainable agriculture, opening a revolutionary pathway to food security. This episode brings Stephen Reisner from Potent Ponics into the spotlight, discussing a groundbreaking project that not only challenges the traditional AI applications in media but ventures into the heart of real-world, blue-collar issues. Explore how AI can empower farmers globally, breaking language barr...

#017 - From Closed AI to Open Source with NVK 17.09.2025

The only way to protect yourself from closed, surveilled AI tools, is to use the open and private alternatives. When NVK couldn't find them, he decided to build them. Unleashed.chat begins to realize the potentially for open source LLMs to compete with ChatGPT and make use of unique means to fine-tune and leverage vectorized data for higher accuracy and relevance to the tasks of the user. What goe...

#016 - Video AI Breakthroughs Already in 2024 10.09.2025

"By the end of 2024, everyone will have tools easily available to them that will allow them to create any video they want by simply typing in a description and hitting generate." ~ Guy Swann Are we on the brink of a revolution where anyone can create blockbuster-quality videos from their bedroom? Discover how the latest AI breakthroughs in 2024 are dismantling the barriers to professional filmmaki...

#015 - Integration, Not Agents with Luke from ParsePrompt 03.09.2025

We are diving into a discussion today with the creator of ParsePrompt on a perspective of where Ai can be leveraged for the highest multiplier. How to use Ai to make one form of content valuable over multiple mediums in an automated an repeatable fashion. As well as exploring the nuance of the open source alternatives, getting an LLM to speak with your data, and where hype has us chasing a foolish...

#014 - A Million New Devs with Hope TS 27.08.2025

"I think AI can make a lot of things better, and if you put them together, if you are aware of the resources at your disposal, I think the average person can do more than the wealthiest person 200 years ago could have done" ~ HopeTS What if YOU could build the app you needed to solve your own problem? Ai has unleashed this ability to millions who have the knowledge necessary to tap into it, if onl...

AI Read #004 - Building a Language Model (Part 2) 20.08.2025

"it’s important to step outside of the hype and critically-analyze what is and is not useful. It’s very easy to get caught up in “potential” applications, and allow the imagination to go all exponential on you. It’s a very human thing. Turning that imagination into something tangible is what a business and an entrepreneur does. It’s our hope this report will be useful along that path." ~ Alek Svet...

AI Read #003 - The Nexus of Bitcoin and AI (Part 1) 13.08.2025

There are so many myths and misconceptions around AI models. What they can do, how they are trained, even the fundamentals of how the data for them is even collected and formatted to make sense. The idea that we can "train our own model" by just feeding it a ton of conversation or notes is unrealistic, but why exactly is that? Today we get into a 2 Part read which will be one of the most value den...

#013 - Become Anyone With Ai 06.08.2025

Today we explore the tools for voice changing ai and text-to-speech. What is Guy using, and what are the impacts of instant and easy voice copying be on content creation, copyright, the meme lords, fraud, and personal identity. Referenced in the show ElevenLabs.io (Link: https://elevenlabs.io/) Altered.ai (Link: https://www.altered.ai/) Episode #011 - The Fears of Ai (Link: http://tinyurl.com/4v9r...

#012 - A Big Leap Forward for Local LLMs 30.07.2025

The models, the tools, the implementations, everything is moving incredibly fast. But a very interesting trend that I've been seeing, is that the open source benchmarks are improving just slightly faster than the closed source alternatives. Slowly but surely, they are catching up. The day may come where the open source models are the best models, the ones with the greatest number of tools, and the...

#011 - The Fears of Ai 23.07.2025

Ai is a powerful tool, and thus, necessarily comes with incredible risk. It could obsolete millions of workers, taking jobs and productive capacity away from humans and consolidate it into corporations. It could make the average individual too dangerous, putting incredible power into the hands of bad people. It may even present an existential threat to humanity, a veritable nuclear bomb, made avai...

#010 - Tools for Running Local LLMs 16.07.2025

Today we dive into a few of my favorite tools for running LLMs locally on your machine, even the average consumer machine. With a huge variety of models to choose from and varying levels of customization and presets, these will get you started on running your own Ai, and getting the pieces necessary to connect them into micro apps and other parts of your workflow. Not only are these huge productiv...

AI Read #002 - A Coder Considers The Waning Days of the Craft 09.07.2025

"Coding has always felt to me like an endlessly deep and rich domain. Now I find myself wanting to write a eulogy for it." ~ James Somers Today we dive into an amazing piece and such an important perspective on the future with Ai. With GPT being able to code with ease, so many tasks and projects that would've taken hours before. Where the "so-so" programmer can now build nearly anything with an Ai...

#009 - 5 Ways You Should be Using Ai 02.07.2025

If you are looking to maximize your productivity, to use the Ai tools available in a way that genuinely gives you that 5x improvement of your capabilities, this is the episode for you. These are the 5 ways I am currently using Ai more than any other to maximize my output. For other links mentioned in the episode: Ai transcription video from YT (Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDw8ZNFBKes) Pr...

AI Read #001 - A Gentle Introduction to Large Language Models 25.06.2025

"Our first instinct when interacting with a Large Language Model should not be “wow these things must be really smart or really creative or really understanding”. Our first instinct should be “I’ve probably asked it to do something that it has seen bits and pieces of before”. That might mean it is still really useful, even if it isn’t “thinking really hard” or “doing some really sophisticated reas...

#008 - Ecash and Ai with Obi Nwosu 18.06.2025

Get 50,000 free sats, plus sats back on everything you buy by signing up with Fold and the Spin+ Debit Card. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠bitcoinaudible.com/fold⁠ Obi Nwosu, co-founder and CEO of Fedi, joins us today to talk about the new innovations and challenges in re-decentralizing the web and how both Bitcoin and Ai are at the core of making it possible. Guest Links Follow Obi on X (Link: https://x.com/obi) Follow...

#007 - Global Markets for GPU Power with Christopher David 11.06.2025

What if we could mitigate the enormous centralizing effects of the massive server farms and huge corporate entities, by pooling the GPU power of the millions of users and tinkerers who have unused or regularly idle computational power, into a decentralized marketplace for buying and selling Ai execution, and we could power it all with instantly settled sats over lightning? It just so happens that...

#006 - Evil, Intelligence & Value with Dhruv Bansal 04.06.2025

Today we delve into a captivating topic, as we explore the potential relationship between AI and evil. My guest Dhruv Bansal brings his profound insights to the forefront as we navigate the depths of this subject. We contemplate the ethical dilemmas that arise when intelligence is harnessed for destructive purposes, and Dhruv expertly unpacks the intricate interplay between AI intelligence, good,...

#005 - Ai, Fiat Incompatible with Kody Low 28.05.2025

"So we had built this for a while, but because API calls are basically free, there really wasn't a good match for it. There were some good matches for it and people would do it, but as they were doing it, it was like 'I can do it this way, but I can also do it with dollars.' This is kind of a really interesting paradigm when it comes to Ai stuff is that there's basically 3 or 4 different aspects o...

#004 - Bias, Ai's Best Feature with Aleks Svetski 21.05.2025

Today we follow up from #002 with Alek Svetski to get him back on and digging into the open, community project they are releasing, the Spirit of Satoshi. They are exploring the capabilities of LLMs in combination with a data store in scaling one-on-one education that explores a topic or idea through a lens of explicit bias. Can we instill a variety of genuinely different worldviews and perspective...

Read_000 - Google "We Have No Moat..." 14.05.2025

"These contributions were pivotal in the image generation space, setting Stable Diffusion on a different path from Dall-E. Having an open model led to ⁠product integrations⁠, ⁠marketplaces⁠, ⁠user interfaces⁠, and ⁠innovations⁠ that didn’t happen for Dall-E. The effect was palpable: ⁠rapid domination⁠ in terms of cultural impact vs the OpenAI solution, which became increasingly irrelevant. Whether...

#003 - The Dark Side of Ai with Alex Lewin 07.05.2025

Ai may be able to make us vastly more productive, far more creative, and orders of magnitude more dangerous. As Ai moves into the realm of creating hierarchies of tasks to accomplish larger goals, combined with the unparalleled scalability of its execution, a broad, self-spreading and malicious Ai becomes frighteningly more possible by the day. Like a wildfire burning out of control, what could be...

#002 - Bias & Truth in AI with Aleks Svetski 30.04.2025

"This is the first time we've interacted with anything other than a parrot that can string together a coherent sentence. And it sounds stupid, but it's actually true. So we are anthropomorphizing, we are projecting our own consciousness onto this thing, and we are immediately imagining Terminator, Minority Report, God knows what else we are imagining - the Ray Kurzweil's of the world - we're imagi...

#001 - A New Frontier, with Jeff Booth 23.04.2025

Welcome to the first episode of AI Unchained, a new show exploring how AI technology can be a means of empowering the individual, rather than a system of control, and all the tools and perspectives that enlighten that journey. Our first guest is none other than Jeff Booth, the author of "The Price of Tomorrow" on the incredible deflationary force of technology and why our only choice is to embrace...

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