No, a locally-run LLM would not be a 10x better solution than having a copy of Wikipedia - plus StackOverflow, the other StackExchange websites, and a lot of other wikis - thanks to Kiwix, a copy of Khan Academy's educational content, of the relevant OpenStreetMap data, of Project Gutenberg, and of dozens more GB in textbooks, reference material, and entertainment.
The illiterate part of the community would be better served by interacting with the community - by fostering connections between people, improving literacy, and giving them tools - rather than with any sort of LLM, let alone one that has been cut down enough to run on cheap, under- (and often intermittently-)powered commodity hardware.
The illiterate part of the community would be better served by interacting with the community - by fostering connections between people, improving literacy, and giving them tools - rather than with any sort of LLM, let alone one that has been cut down enough to run on cheap, under- (and often intermittently-)powered commodity hardware.