

Nah, you’re safe to run it locally. You’re downloading the specific model, that’s right, and it’s not an exe. As you ask questions of it, the inference step, that is sent directly to the model on your machine by the ollama interface. Nothing goes over the network after you download a model and there is no scanning involved; that’s just not how it works.
That sounds exhausting. Draining. Incredibly difficult. What you’re doing is impressive and admirable. To me it sounds like you’re checking off the “good mom” box. You didn’t ask a question so I won’t offer advice. But I wish you all the best. I hope you at least feel heard.