# AI Beginners Need to Hear This — Part 1

**Channel:** LowKeyAGI
**Source:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1jYHHKfnZk
**Transcript page:** https://www.withtranscript.ai/video/D1jYHHKfnZk

## Chapters

- 0:00 — Avoiding Bad AI Advice Online
- 0:32 — Common AI Setup Myths
- 1:16 — Simple Low-Cost AI Setup

## Transcript

**[0:00]:** If you're looking in to setting up AI agents for yourself to automate your entire life and all of your businesses, and maybe you want to place your AI minions inside of a space dungeon so that you could watch them work, I would be very careful on what content you consume and what creators you listen to if you're new to the space because YouTube and TikTok are complete cesspits right now. And as a beginner, it's going to be very difficult to tell if a creator is giving you genuine advice on what tools you should be using or just shilling you some AI product that they're sponsored by, right?

**[0:32]:** Many people are going to tell you that it's dangerous to host Hermes agent directly on your PC, right? They're going to tell you that you know, you know, they're going to sell you on the idea basically of purchasing a subscription for a virtual private server to host it on, which is complete The creators that are shilling you on buying these virtual private server subscriptions, they don't even use them themselves, bro. Wish it would end there, but it doesn't because many other creators will sell you on using some shitty AI model that they're also sponsored by. And even when it comes to the the computer or the hardware that you need to get this started, they're going to shill you on some expensive-ass computer that you don't need to get started with, right?

**[1:16]:** The truth is, you don't need a VPS. You don't need some these shitty AI models, and you don't need to purchase an expensive computer to do any of the that you see me doing with running businesses, whatever it is. You can get started at the price of one Chipotle burrito a month. All you need to do is download Hermes agent. You just go to Hermes agent