Disclaimer
1. Educational purpose only
Content on privatellm.au is general educational information about private and local large language models, software tools, hardware classes, and related topics. It is written for a general audience in Australia and is not personalised advice for your business, product, security posture, employment, or legal situation.
2. No professional advice
Nothing on this site is legal, security, privacy, cybersecurity, financial, investment, tax, accounting, medical, clinical, or other professional advice. Mentions of the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), Australian Privacy Principles (including APP 8 cross-border disclosure), data sovereignty, “compliance”, or industry use cases are high-level educational orientation only. They are not a gap assessment, not a certification, and not a substitute for qualified counsel, your organisation’s policies, or a security review.
3. Content may be incomplete, outdated, or wrong
We work to keep guides useful, but we do not guarantee completeness, currency, or accuracy of any model name, command, specification, price range, licence summary, or third-party feature. Always verify against official documentation and current retailer listings before you buy, deploy, or process sensitive data. If something looks outdated, treat official sources as correct.
In particular, treat as provisional unless you have verified them yourself: model names and pull tags; VRAM/RAM “floors”; licence summaries; hardware price ranges; electricity examples; tool feature lists; and any statement that a configuration is “enough” for your workload.
4. No warranties of outcomes
Following any guidance here does not mean software is secure, private, accurate, compliant, fit for production, fit for regulated data, or free from defects, data loss, outages, licence breach, or liability. Open-weight models, runners, drivers, quantisation behaviour, licences, retailer stock, and street prices change constantly — often without notice. Benchmarks and “VRAM / RAM floors” on this site are approximate practical guidance for learning, not warranties of performance on your machine.
5. Your responsibility
You are solely responsible for: verifying vendor and model documentation; testing thoroughly; choosing hardware and power/cooling safely; complying with software licences; securing your systems; and obtaining professional advice where appropriate (including legal and security advice before handling personal, health, financial, privileged, or other regulated information). You remain responsible for complying with laws that apply to you — including the Australian Consumer Law and privacy law where relevant.
6. Same app, two data flows
A desktop runner can execute a model on your computer or send the prompt to a vendor cloud from a screen that looks local. “I installed the app” is not proof that data stayed on the machine. Read the runner’s current cloud and privacy docs before you paste client, health, or privileged material.
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