alt Hacker News> You can get around this by hosting in a 3rd party data center, but now you have the same trust issue again, but with more steps
No this is not true — colos are very hands off.
You don't need to operate a mini AWS to self-host, and I don't know why people on HN want to make it sound like self-hosting if you don't have nation state security
> colos are very hands off
That’s a pretty broad statement? Maybe a more correct one would be that some are hands off enough that some people might find them worth it.
And that really only addresses one problem. The other one is the coordination problem. You go in on a $30k GPU with 3 other people. So each person puts down 7.5k. But then one person wants to pull out, and so every remaining person needs to put in an extra $2.5k on top, and they’re questioning whether $10k for a chatbot is really worth it.