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AI is very free. You just need to host it yourself.
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Submitted 1 month ago by Buttflapper@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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Deceptichum@quokk.au 1 month ago
Willie@lemmy.world 1 month ago
There are a few inaccuracies in your statement, but It was clear the whole thing was about money from the start though, you shouldn’t be surprised about this. If you were hoping for AI to be free to you, you should have only been supportive of software that you could run on your own hardware.
Anyway, these companies are in the position of ISPs now, where they have customers, but they don’t want to pay for the infrastructure to support the amount of customers that they have, since they can make the same amount of money without making their customers happy.
None of that helps you… Sorry…
Welcome to episode 1 of Black mirror reality TV series!
Well, have fun with your pig, I guess. Haha.
dsilverz@thelemmy.club 1 month ago
Try DuckDuckGo AI Chat, which offers both ChatGPT and Claude (as well as Llama and Mixtral) anonymously and free. They lack the capability of searching the web, but they don’t seem to have the same daily limit as official OpenAI’s ChatGPT / Anthropic’s Claude have.
Also, the free version of Google Gemini seems to have no daily limit as well, but unfortunately its responses are so lazy.
Personally, I highly recommend Llama, because 1) it’s open source 2) its responses seem more complete 3) it’s totally free.
TootSweet@lemmy.world 1 month ago
hedgehog@ttrpg.network 1 month ago
You can use AI for free on your own hardware.
AI is committing mass theft of copyrighted information and data on a widespread scale, the only way they are going to be able to train their AI models and have been training their AI models are through free information that has been taken from users, people of the world, sold to them by third parties.
By “mass theft of copyrighted information,” what do you mean? Who had the copyrighted information but no longer has it? Do you mean copyright infringement? If so, then you should look up “fair use” and keep reading until you understand why they think it’s applicable to their use case.
And by “data that has been taken from users,” do you mean by users who agreed to terms of service allowing the use or sale of their information/contributions to the site, generally so they could use a site for free?
Do you think that receiving a service has zero value, or that providing that service has zero value? If so, then why did all of those people use those zero value services in exchange for their information?
stsquad@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
What do people expect? Those servers aren’t free to run and they’re is only so much VC money to burn. That said I wouldn’t pay the various subscription levels that are currently being asked for. I pay for API use which is basically pay as you go. It also makes you think “does this task really need the non-free tier to complete?”.
flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Um, companies wanting to charge for their services? Sure it not as nice as getting stuff for free but how else are they supposed to fund the insane cost of running LLMs along with at least some profits.
noodlejetski@lemm.ee 1 month ago
no it wouldn’t.
no it wouldn’t.
chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.net 1 month ago
4o does perform web searches, give summaries from a couple of pages, and include the link to those pages when prompted properly.
However, as most people know, first couple results doesn’t always tell the full picture and further actual researches are required… but, most “AI assistant” (also including things like those voice assistants in speakers) users tends to take the first response as fact…
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