Discord Bot with Local AI

Discord remains the home of countless communities. A custom bot can answer questions, handle moderation or act as a personal assistant on your own server. Combined with a local language model, everything stays under your control: no per-message API costs and no user data with external providers.

This section covers the fundamentals of running your own Discord bot with local AI: from creating the bot application in the Discord Developer Portal to connecting it with Ollama and adding sensible commands and safeguards.