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?

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.

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