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It severely over-permissions itself on my Mac.

Can you please elaborate? How are you running ollama? I just build it from source and have written a shell script to start/stop it. It runs under my local user account (I should probably have its own user) and is of course not exposed outside localhost.

I have never had it request any permissions

Just install it from Brew and run the service in a separate terminal tab.

Isn't there a clause in MIT that says you're required to give credit? Also, I didn't know a YC company which started it: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ollama.

The project existed in the open source and then subsequently the creators sought funding to work on it full time.

Makes sense!

> But why run it in a VM?

Because you don't execute untrusted code in your machine without containerization/virtualization. Don't you?

Every single day. There's just too much good software out there, and life is too short to be so paranoid.

The question was asking why it’s untrusted code, not why you run untrusted code in a VM.

There are a lot of open-source tools that we have to trust to get anything done on a daily basis.